The Sun.
London, England, 1814-08-22 00:00:00

PRIVAM CORRESPONDENCE.

liR USSETS, Alro. 16.

Happily for mankind there is at. present a great
deP.rth of news, t,tneiiti.of tliat kind for
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the last 20 years, we have been so anxious to' oh,-
the coffee-house politicians indeed are very
active here, in arranging all the business of the
r
avroaehiug .Congress ht Vienna, but found . •
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them quite as tgnorant, and
,very nearly as •posi-
Jive, as the same class of gentry in England; et
e'estlwciucoup dire. not -therefrire trouble
1-ou with tkir speculations :: This place is full
,of English, independent of the military. The
Duke of IVELuNokOrt,arrivo herejast Tuesday ;
.he went to the play in-the ievfnini,v, and was. re.
' ceivecl with the most enthirsiabtic applause. Lord
CLANICARI'Y gate a sniehilitt ate on the PRZVCE
.Itg ;ENT'S birth-d:ly, and Lord livz;vocri. gives
one to-day, in himour of the-Duke of YORK his
Lordship will leave 'this place for England in a
few days, when the command of the English
forces will devolve upon the Hereditary Prince,
of ORANGE', who is here, as 'is also the Sore-
Prince. Lord HArtaowsv passed through
this place a few days ago on his way to Spa,
Lord CASTi.iREAChf is expected on Saturday, and
.14r. WHY/IMA') is here, recruiting his strength
after the fatigues of his Parliamentary campaign.
have nos, I believe, given you all the gossip of
'Brossels, except that there is an English Company
of Players here, under the.direetion of I'iM,El';
they performed last night for the first time ; the
play was John Bull. The house was crowded.
• As some of your Readers May contemplate a
visit to this part of the world, it will not per-.
-haps bye unidteresting to them to know the'
manner and the expense of travelling here.
The packets being now established at Ostend,
that, I presaftf, will be the place where the-
Englsh visitors will in general disenihark: I
have met with some who have chosen the way of
Calais and Dunkirk, but Ostetul is irLinitely pre-
ferable. There are at Ostend two tolerably. good
hotels ; the ac•:ammodations ore certainly not
quite.*o-good as we arracenstomtd to In Eng-
land, but still they are comfortahte. Ostend has
suffered dreadfully during the last 20 years, from
the total, stagnation of trade ; there is an air of
poverty and desolation in every part of the town,
which it is impossible to describe.---From Ostend
to Bruges the distance by the canal is four leagues
(the league here is dear four miles), and you pay
for your passage, and a breakfast of coffee and.
bread and butter, about Is. 6d. The barge leaves
Ostend at five, and reaches Bruges at eight.—
From Bruges to Ghent, the ordinary mode of tra-
velling is by the canal. The hatge sets off at nine
in the morning, and arrives at Ghout, a distance
of eight leagues, at four in the afternoon. The
barge is a large handsome vessel, with an awning
Over time after-part of the deck, and an excellent

dining-room and drawing-room below. It is usua
to dine on board at a kind of table d' Note.

paid for my dinner (which was excellent), for a
pint of Vin du Rhin (a kind of Hock), and my
passage, ss. ?d.

I would strongly recommend any English tra-
veilec to stop, if possible, a few days at Ghent ; it
is a mast beautiful city. From Ghent it is usual
to proceed to Brussels, but 1 went to Antwerp ;
1 travelled in the diligence, a mode of conveyance
which has been much ridiculed (and I think ra-

t}icr unjustly) in England. It is certainly a cum

Brous vehicle, but it is easy, caenii►uclious, safe,

and cheap.
Antwerp did not, suffer much by the English
bombardment, some houses were knocked. down,
and about 40 persons killed in the streets ; the fire
was entirely directed to the quarter where the
f..-et lay. The French Governor who
,preceded
CA .Nor levelled every house and every tree, with-
in a mile and a half of the fortifications, all round
the town. This measure was adopted during the
severity of the winter; and as the unfortunate peo-
ple. whose houses and gardens were destroyed ‘vere
-not allowed any compensation-, and were not luf-
fere() to take refuge in .Autwerp, their distress way
be Letter imagined than described.—The Churches
at Antwerp are magnificent, but the French car-
ried oil the most valuable paintings.

Von_know, of course, that the Scheldt fleet is
to be divided among the Allied Powers.—There

rare or seven sail'oithe line on the stocks ; t hey
}ire 2111MV(iiately tO be brolten up, and :the mate-
rials .nre advertised for sale. V. V.

Coach Burt.Dmo.—This branch of i,nr trade
in paytivdar is ',hely to benefit much by the Peace.
severn±
orders have recently been received from
I'm is' for carriages of English fashion and !nano-
factiir, and while these .go abroad, it is 'pleasing.
to reflect, tat ninny i)rscns at hozac fay 30011
drive their O'n coaches, hytheincl.cions pureb,3,
of a Ticket tb. admirable Lottery, which draws
can the ist of Septtfabcr.---This i.:l cettaiuly a
seasou!

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