The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-01 00:00:00

Notes by the Editor of the,Paris Paper.

(a) This Letter is &ten at Braunsberg, Feb.; 26! Op that
day, at two o'clock'in the att.anoort, General DuPoNT drove
out nt that town as appears by the 63d Bul-
letin. "Ulte Author of the Letter ha's made -an, untortut.afe
choice of the fact, which he has cited to piciVe that " the
French in vain hope•to confine the Kussians behind the
P rebel,.,

(b) It is reAii.,rkable that the .English Government never
promises its Atli:4' sgccUurs but. at a season ‘v lien; tliey can-
tiut,be s'ent.utracct,.!,c ut the 'weather. This: time it is by
the lisltic that tivy at,; to be, (sent. The frost will serve thein
ass pretext till the InAnn of I oly, and as the Russians:will

be defeated aboUt that time, that will serve as an excuse for
nut semliii6 any troops

(c) 'Whenever a great entcrprize is to be undertaken, then
great juwls taken to exaggerate the number of their Army;
but when they have to palliate as defeat, then it is re-
present:A as being extremely weak,

►►►uch tiie worse for them ; but if the go9c.i gegi-
merits left 3c.,00q tnc►t (lead at Eylau, hosv many would the
kid Regiments have lost.

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(e) "I'ne Eiiglislt Ariny which is to Arrive by the Baltic „ill
.be in the satn.: situation, and the unsedueucg will bet that
they may both go to school, togellc.

• (I) "I'lat is because the iussian soldiers jwtge of these
viaories by the results, and know that their Army would not
exist a long tiine if trey Were often repeated.

(s) This error, if it be is very eietiseable--the Rps-
s:an Artily entertain it in c:o4rtnion with a great many other
honest people.

(b) Tids reliedion mighi as well have been made before
the War. The Russians ou;lit to have foreseen that tney
would have a skilful Uncial employed against them, and.
one who is riot act...ttstomed to spend in repose thetime which
• his at.,ly spen4s;,4 camps.
(4; The attacks which the Russian Army has liaci to sus-
taiii•at so uiltavo4rable a season Or the year ought :to teach
them what they, are to, expeet, when the season peranits.—
Duringa rainy winter, in which frots, thaws, mud,, ice,
and snow, have continually succeeded to' each other, and de-
ranged all operations,:calculations„ anti movements, the Rus-
sians have seeir what a skilful and enterprizing General, has
doni. It he has made them pass an uncomfortable winter
when they had the choice of positions, a knowledge of the
Country, and were accusto.. ed to the climate, what sort of
a summer will they have when the season will permit him
to make his calculations with that precision which have
hitherto rendered them infallible?

B EiNE, MiRCH B.—The enemies of philosophy,
that is to say, of reason and humanity, may console
themselves tanaticism and superstition still find
dupes and vi&ims. An inconceivable a$ of atrocity
. was lately committed by a new se& in the village of
Rappre.svi7yl, near Arberg. This sea was unknown
a few weeks ago, and the origin of it is not yet ascer-
tained. All that we can collea resgeaing there is,
that they believed that the end of the world was
near, and that there was no other way to save
themselves but by following implicitly the in-
spiration of the Holy Ghost. A young girl, about,

fourteen years of age, appeared to be the prin-
cipal organ of those wonderful inspirations. They
consulted her upon all occasions, and thought they
were bound implicitly to obey her. The firs;
mc,eting of these Sectaries was very secret; but the

Pastor and Sub-prefe& of the village being informed
that there was to be a numerous meeting within
these few days, went thither, and by exhortations
prevailed upon them to disperse. They then cone
suited the young girl what they were to do : she
told 'them that they must go that night in great force
to the house of the Prefea, and condua him to a dis-
tance; '-This oracle was obeyed. The Prefect was
one of the most worthy men in the country, and
what adds to the horror of the circumstance, he was
the grandfather of this very young girl. He was
taken from his own house by this furious crowd, and
carried to. a village a considerable distance from his
village. There the unhappy girl threw her arms round
this respe&able old than, and drew him to the ground,
and withirantic cries invited the crowd to precipi
tate themselves upon him, and to save him from
perdition by suffocating him. After having put him
-to death in this manner, without any wound or con-
tusion,appearing on his body, the frantic crew danced
around their victim, singing praises to the Lord.---
The principal a&ors in this dreadful scene have been
arrested and taken to Berne. There is a woman.
among them, who-is suspected of having given them
some kind of philtre, which deranged their intelleas
and rendered them furious.

BERLIN, MARCH 13.—MeSSIS. FREDERIC SAHERR.
and GEORG-8 WELHELMI, both Sub-Lieutenants in the
Regiment of Gravenitz, prisoners upon their parole of
honour, who were included in the Capitulation con-
cluded at Preutzlow by PrinCe FICHENLOHE, and had
not been exchanged, have since been taken with arms
in their hands fighting against the French, at the
head of some Partizans in Neutnarck. These Of -
cers were taken to Custrin, and. tried a Court
* artial, The prisoners aYqwed their guilt, and
they were sentenced to death, and -extecntect the
3110311 evening. •

PPETRY.

TO WILLIAM WO,RDSWOIITH, ESQ.
4uTrioa OF .11L11.0.A1. BALLAD;, &C. vgif,

AH I why this churlish 1 erwe, pray
• Thou khow'st did thy Nuptials hail
Yet nothing hast thou dciign'd t say-7
Why, gentle l'oet of the Vale
Art,.thou Absprli'd itt wedded joys'
• Preparing for a gossip's tale
Or fondling o'er a darling Loy,
• • The future Poet of the Vale ? •
Qr dust thou woo the simple Muse
Thy artless courtship scarce can
For moral, kind, and tender vieWsi,
Endear the Poet of the Vale.

Pit ! should'st thou to ;his region come,
Compat'd with, thine dusky gaol.,
How gladly would my humble 11011.4
fieceive the I'oet of the Vale!

BOMBAY COURIER, fuNi 28, 18c6.
On Tuesday arrived in the harbour_ his Majesty's.
Ship ar*.eallis, Captain C. J. JOHNSTON, fl.-04n a
crutze off the isle or France.—;The(Tor-744)(11as left
that station on the. 7th inst. at which period she left
cruizing eitr the Island his Majesty's Ships Albion,.
Captain TERRIER.; P4t4., Captain BoltuasT and
__Drake, Capt. PELLEW. It.appears that ti.ree Fri-
gates bad arrived at the Island from Europe, two of
them had saPed on a cruize ; the Scfuadn'm had ex-
perienced very severe blowing weather on their
cruizing ground, being mostly. under reefed top-
sails and foresails=made no captures during their
cruize. .
By letters from Aden, the .9.13 th of May last, we
learn that 70 men belOnihg to the Carclebilx, a Ship
the property; of the Nabob of Surat, had on I hat day
reached Aden, in an open boat. The Covdelux had
been captured four days before, near Cape St. /-1,21-7
thony, by a French Ptivateer, and sent to the Mau-
ritius,

The Clerk of the cardebuz, :
who is among those
sot on shore, reports, that there are several Aran, sea-
'men on board t he. Privateer. They said, t hat the other
four French Ships were cruizing otfßabelmanciel, and
in the Red Sea. Their rendezvops is said to lie Ca-
meron Island, lately purchased by Sy so MAtiomEo
AXEL for t t 3,00.0 dollars. The SPED is said to haVe
fortified the Island, which is very well tilted to be-
come,a station for Corsairs. The Cardeimx:s cargo
of piece 'goods on freight for the lied Sca Market_
was valued at upwards of two Licks of rupees.
A report prevails, that sotne small Vessels
hometan Pilgrims for Mecca, from. hi 3 Coast,., h4d.
been seized by the French Privateers.

,Mr. H. JOHNSTON is, performing at Dublin, where
his wife also had atfengagement ; bui she lately re-
turned to this country; and is engaged, it is said, at
the Bath Theatre.

A remarkable instance of sagacity and love for 'the
human species in a dug occurred on Monday se'ii-
plght in Romney Marsh.—A female child, about four
years old, •the daughter of a looker, at Beigar, ber
,
• tween Romney and Lydd, having been lett by its
mother alone in a room where there was a hie, whilst
She went abroad upon some busines, the..t lotiies of
,the child caught the flames, ond sh • ra.i terrified,
with the garments. burning, into an adjoining apart-
ment, where a dog was tied up. The animal, it ap-
pears, as soon as the child came within his reach,
threw her on the ground, and tore every article of
-her 'clothes off, in which situation she craWied to a
bed, arid wrapped herself in' a coverlet. On t,,e re-
turn of the mother, she discovered some itsiks and
remnants of the child'S.clothei beside the uog, and
on approaching the bed, found the poor intani, with
one of her arms burnt, and her side so miserablY
scorched, that her heart was nearly perceptible ;
had, however, power to tell her parent, that blxp-
herd, the dog's mine; had taken her ciotues (rd.--
She survived about an hour after being id,iscov,
and thee expired.