The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-21 00:00:00

THE TiIFATAIE.

The satirical, but coarse Comedy. of The Mon of
the kl'or?d; lost night, introduced Mr. LEE LEwizg
to the London nudience, in the part. at' Sir -Peril-
flax M'Sycophant. This perforiner is the sou of
Mr. LEr...GwEs, who many years ag6 h'ltl
titlibliShthl rank as a Comedian in the other theatre.
-1-list,lion strongly rescinbles him in features, per,
son, and voice. he voluntarily selected
the character in which he appeared last night, or
whether it Was allottt:d to him, hV the Managers,
we know not, hat it was certainly a very
pions choice, as the 1-niginal: Jeprmen z :ye,
MAcKLit.t,' and hishi able foflymi.P., CotrY,E, 9ilP'
. ported it with so much ability,'-a4 to remkr any
attempt at competition a very rash experimLnt.
TkAr person:o(Nr-, LEE LeNrEs i 5 not suitable
for-the part; it I's cop slender and spare, and hit
yciice also is a too high toned and faint a cast, to
give the variety of fawning trithtlety, vehement
.passiriri, and autlacions satire, which the eharite-
' tee demands. Upon thewhole,whateverMr.Ltht
LgwAg'l,4tlpents may be, lie is certainly tint q4l
lined for ti):: part of Sir Pera Nix , iiideptindentiy
of all reference to his powerful pretttet sei , Mrs.
Gwyn Ira, I}.lliliiauly spirited in Lad!, iioduip/m

*Darius the very,short period tt t the beenning
of the year in which the onforturtv,tellkyt.t kiatn-
hitrzh Iva.f.vded from the of the
French, many orders for rit*Atta,tn .-ttr Statelot-
teries reatihed this C9untry,,,.AtiAlt sttipp()%e4l
that several thonsand.Tiettet'nf,,the present .Lot-
tery will "be disposed cfpwilie I:etov,pen
this and 'the beginning 'of 11.4a4trAitY, when' the
Drawing takes Riace.

Lk. EON., MALTA, & GIBRALTAR PAPERS.

GIBRALTAR, Nov. 26.:---The Malta Packet has
brought accounts'from that Island to:the‘2d, and
front Palermo to the 4th. The timnber of deaths
in Malta was reduced to three per dad►, and from
Sicily., we hear that ,the Parliament had been dis-
sZ•ed.

ers, Gibraltar, Nov.' 26.

The Inspectors of Districts :are requested to
remply with the following suggestions. from the
Board of Health

'4 Recommended, that the rnspeetors of pis-
tricts be requested to report all cases of sickness,
pvevionsly.to the removal of the patients toThe
Lazaretto, that the sick persons may be visited by
a Aredieal Officer before they are taken from their
I.l4.:bitations.

•It is further recommended, that- the In-
spectors be requested'to repoutio the Board, by
Saturday next, the 4th of December, if ail the
houses kmd dwelliogs, mithin their distrietS, have
.been :cleansed and fumigated, *agreeably to the
—Proclamation of the 9th instant.

'' Should there be any houses still shut up, the
inspectors to be requested to notice the same in
their report, that Some steps may be taken to pre-
vent their being occupied till the orders in ques-
tion have been'duly complied with."
" .By his Excellency the I.lctit.-Governor commanding;
" F. STOKES, A. Sec.

By the NVeeltly return contained in this Paper,
it appears that the number of new cases at Gibral-
tar for the weck..ending the 26th of November
Were sixteen, and deaths three.

brsaoN,• Auc. 4.----The yellow fever at Gibral-
tar, - the plague, at Malta, and the black vomit,at
Cadiz, have all ceased, or so nearly ceased as to
. cause no flintier alarm even to the inhabitants of
these places. This may be confidently relied on.
MrisslN4, 161.8 y the arrival of an Eng-
lish vessel from Porrza,• we have received the
agreeable intelligence, that on the 29th Septem-
ber last, two English frigates and two brigs took,
Under Gape Antonio,' 44' of the enemy's vessels,
. laden with valuable merchandize, together tivith
• 12 armed barks which escorted them, all of which
they carried into, Ponza, where they were at the
time of the departure of the vessel. We anxiously
wait the official confirmation of this intelligence.
Oc:Tonr.a 14.—0 n the 20th of September, the
chebee Libybeo, 'belonging to the Royal flotilla,
had an action with a French national brig, off
the island of San. Pietro, near Sardinia. The
enemy's vessel mounted 16 carionades, 24-pound-
ers, and had a'crew of 130 men, while ours •had
only six Cannon, and 140 men. • The enemy at'-
tempted to birard several times, but was beat off,
'and the damage sustained, by the, Lilybeo in her
rigging, alone., prevented .tier: capture,',.and
,ena-
bled her to sheer off, which she at last disgrace-
fully did. ..We had three' rit our brave marines'
lolled, and ten woundca in this action, which has
atfOrdea a new proof of the spirit And bravery
aniiii4tes all the individttak of the Royal
flotilla, an especially does -honour to Don A-Nro-
Nrio cd'Arviietro, who
,coramanded the chehec.

51./?-11.5.

AnflivED-1 :\hlta, 1 Dublin, 2 Waterford. Due—l (7itdi.4,
1 Lisbon, 3 (;ottetoprzll, I Cortitina, 5 lieligolatid,
2 Guernspy, 3 Jeney.'

Si. TIIO3IAS'S PAY.--TiDlytiay at the Fiicchequer, Burst', and
Scnith,Sen House..

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LONDO.A.,
TUESDAY; DECEMBER 1818.

Dispatches from 'Sir GEOLGE PacvosT, of va-
rious dates, to the 4th of Noventher, :will be pub-
fished' in to-night's 9a.zelte. They contain Merely
the account of General IL I:arrow's attack 'upon
the frontiers of Lower Canada,. and of his repulse;
of the arrival at Quebec of two. battalions of ma-
rines and 300 seamen of the defeat of Gen.
PaocTott's corps, which lost, about 250 men,—
,Other particulars will be found in our Extracts
from the American Papers, a file of Which we have
this morning received.

French Papers, to the 18th have reached town,
and are notorious for the impudent effrontery with
w'hich, upon every topic, they attempt to carry on
the system of . delusion on which the impostor at
the head of their Government depends for the pre-
servation of his usurped authority. In France
their armies are
,represented as victorious in
Italy they are victorious on the Rhine. they
arc secure in Holland they possess all the strong
places, and their force in the held is paramount ! !
What credit we are to give to the parts of this in-
telligence whichwe have not as yet received informa-
t ion todisprove,may he measured by the authenticity'
of the statements of facts with the trite nature of
which we arc acquainted!. Did we not know the
utter roilrepresentatton of the news it. pecting
Holland, we might be disturbed by the fables
from Bayonne ; were we nut aware of the, per-
verfJitok oltreth respecting the cOndlition of Italy,
we might be tempted to plate some reliance till
,ifiL,ilitiaZioll3 which refer to -the situat;un of
tbr Dui iris vain to melt roar to extract
the dartich-t of vcrileity contitinc4 in a ari-;s of
litioNAPAiierzi troths resedohle Crilti
RqtY reasom-''they are 09 two graiui of wheat
b‘4l:fl•--Li -,of 'chaff yo.I 041 f;t:;:if, 'l4ll day

ere von finil them ; and when you have found
them they are not worth the search." We
shall not therefOre, in the abseil*" of all
infornuttion which may be. depended' upon; mi-
nutely investigate, with a view of aseertain-
ing the facts, the inventions relative to an.ae-
tion on the Nive, which from Bourdeaux and
Bayonne, have found their way into the Paris
Journals. It would seem even from the French
account, that SOULT with his whole fOree, 50,000,
attempted on the 10th to regain some oldie po-'
sitions whence he had been driven on' the preced-
ing day, and from which' (so fae.froni their being
thought worthy of obstinate defence). Lord WEL.
LINGTON had the night 'before Avithdrawn three of
the five diviSions with which he bail conquered
them.' The remaining two-fifths of a force,
ginally amounting, in all, to 5,060, would of
course retire, before the :Approach of the entire
French army ; and this, we accordingly find, the
British did towards the Nive, into which river the
Bourdeaux Writer humanely and kindly hopes they
'' will be pushed," The Bayonne intelligence is
somewhat.different; it represents the attack of
the 10th as occasioned by the desire of SOULT
not to be so mud) straitened in his fortified camp
uhder the guns of that City, as to allow the
British to remain close upon it. He therefore
brought his whole strength into action, and drove
these advanced posts towards Bidart (half way be-
tween Bayonne and St. Jean de Luz). This wa§
sn troublesome a service, however, that General
REILLE, after being reinforced with one division,
was obliged to call for other succours, and even
with these had so little success, that four British
Regiments ventured the next morning to attack
him on the Plateau of liarouillet, though •we are
told 10 a confusion of style, that they were
" forced to retire," and " were nut to the
rout," and also, that they '' felt back to a line
in the rear."

Upon the whole, these seem to have been very
partial affairs on the left of our line, which had
been pushed -to the very environs of Bayonne and
its earnp (.‘ On the test of the line_ nothing has
passed;" and Lord WELLINGTON, notwithstanding
all these defeats, menaces' 'General SouLT as
before ! !

'The Italian news relates to PtNO's march against
the division with which Gen. NtiaEN:r was creat-;
ing a diversion oti the'Po. The story is like DUO-
NAPARTE'S'oId Bulletins in that coutitry-, when he.
used to kill (and we believe eat), in every min-
paign, thrice the number of the armies opposed to
him, with the loss of an occasional finger to a
hussar or grenadier. These. falsities impose on
Europe no longer, and Bulletin victories in the
• Moniteur or Reducteur, are no inore competent to
bind the chains of terror oti the world. The in-
telligence front ..the Rhine is a blank—and that
frotn Switzerland is partially discussed iu our
Observations on another, subject. • -

Acccinuts from 'Lisbon, Sicily, Malt, and Gib-
raltar, have 'arrived this morning, and are giVett
is a preceding.column. • We rejoice to say, that
the malignant disorder, which has ravaged the two
latter, has subsided, and health and safety is re-
turning to these afflicted places. In Sicily, a
plague of anOther kind has 'abated the 'Parlia-
ment is ,disolVed. • A very successful and bril-
liant • achievement has been 'performed on the
coast of Naples, and 'a
large flotilla captured,
which was no doubt nitcuded to co-operute,with
the artily Uhtler MURAT.

When Sir J..MAcrwrosu gave notice 'that he
would oppose the adjournment of Parliament on
the ground of the assumption by the Prince of
ORANGE of the title of Sovereign, bestoWed upon
hint by the, spontaneous acclaim of the Dutch
people, We ventured to suggest tea him that this
'was little reciincileable' With theprineipleS he
maintained in the work lie publis' bed in 1791, en-
titled- " GALLICie, Defence of the
French
rnevolution and its. English• Admirers," of
which he was himself one of the warmest: lie
there advocated the rights of the people, to modify.
and form their Government into whatever-fantas-
tical shape they Pleased, and we could see no
reason why that privilege should be .accoujed to
a French Jacobin, and withheld trout a.Duteh,Pa-,
triot. Our remark to this effect appears to have
staggered the resolution of the Honourable Mem-
ber, and though he was resolute not to sulfer.an
adjournment s ithout a speech, that speech has
been laboured upkm very 'different grOnnds front
those originally hinted at--;-at least it sets out with
professions to that import, though, towards the
conclusion, it lapses into thaerror it beganby declar-
ing it would avoid. Sir,J4sms says, (if the Report
in. the Morning Papers east be relied on) «the only
. ,
of contest between tne Noble LOrd and my-
self is one of mere Parliamentary proceeding. On.
"all those great' questions, so interesting to the
Houle, tU tt t Cei;ntry, and Er,rupe, mid 01.1

which a feeling so unanimous has existed among us
it is far from my wish to dwell. A few incidental
remarks may escape me with respect to them ; but
they arc not the-'topics to which, in the presen t
instance, I wish particularly to call the attention
of the Ihntsc

Yet, with. this in his mouth, hedevotes about
one-seventh part of his obsen'ations to the ,
" only point of contest," and tire remaining
six sevenths to the matters of " incidental re-
mark." On the former we shall be as reserved as
the Honourable Member, only noticing that he
appears toils to push
.the right of the Parliarnert
to advise, further than is exactly consistent with
that extent of Royal Prerogative which the. Con-
stitution allots to the Crown, in dispensing oc-
casionally with these Counsels. On thesubject of
Holland and Switzerland we still more materially
dissent from many of the doctrines he broached.
We do not admire the invidious terms in whiCh the
Revolution of Holland is described as " the
subversion of the ancient Dutch Republic in a tumul-
• Mary manner by a few gentlemen (the inhabitants
of 'two towns only) and in the pfLente of a
foreign force," Is this a fair view by the per-
son who thus defended and eulogised the mur-
derous course by. which the new French Sys-.
tern was matured) "Ii is in vain (quoth the
JAMES MACINTOSIrOf 1791) that their adVersaries
contest this assertion, by appealing to the deficiency
of forms. It is in vain to demand the legal instru-
ment that changed 'their Constitution, and extended
their powers. Accurate forms in the conveyance of
powers are prescribed by the wisdom of law in
the regular administration of States. But GREAT
REVOLUTIONS ARE Too'IMMENiE FOR TECHNICAL
TORMALITY !! ! All the sanction that can be hoped
for in such events, is the voice of the People,
' however informally 'expressed."—ln God's name,
then; Sir, why find fault with the Act of
the 'Dutch Nation ? Why • cavil at their "
multuary" proceedings ? Why wish the thing had
been done formally, and with all the techinicalities
you despised in the French Revolution? The
answer is on the face of your speech---a revolution
from a Monarchy to a Republic is so agreeable to.
your opinions that you can conceive no possible
evil to result from it, but a revolution from a Re-
public to a Monarchy -fills, you with these unholy
suspicions which you discovered last night in tile
House of Commons. " i should have been glad
also, if the whole affair had been conducted more
gravely," yOu say, but then 'you know, Sir, that
" great revolutions are too immense for teChnical
formality."

Our space will scarcely permit us to advert to
the topic of Switzerland. The violatiOn of the
offensive policy ptiONAPARTE chuses to cull Neutra-
irality, in that country yOu declare would be a
violation of one 'of the first principles of public
law: Looking to the real state of the case, 11.1-1 d
not.to names, we deny your proposition as applL
cable to SWitzerland at this moment, or to any
country at any time, whose neutrality shall be a
positive injury 'to one of the Belligerents,
and a benefit to the other. This is pre-
cisely the .chsp in point. The neutrality of
Switzerland is a face--its independence, of
which you talk, a mere: moekery. How has the
fanner been respected ?—now has the latter been
visible for.the last fifteen years ? The first, by the
total disregard of it by every power in Europe,
and especially by France ; the last, in a stcdfust
adherence of a corrupeGovernment, in opposition
to the People, to, the country which first be-
trayed and ravaged, and-ever since tyrannized over
an 4 oppressed them. Yet, forsooth, Sir J. MAC-
INTOSH arid Mr.
,WHITIIIIEAD would prove, that
the Allies ought to acquiesce in the neutrality of
a State, wh; c citizens are contingents in their
enemy's armies, and-whae c!,tnary would thus.be
made ss barrier to cover his weakest frontier

We have nothing of consequence from Holland.
Reports of negoeiations at Basle are propagated ;
we believe these refer only to the state of Swit-
zerland.

By letters received by the Cam!), i in' this- morn-
ing, ftom Makas, of the •ith An,...;u,t, we learn),
that Sir Geonna BnaLow had ordered the Com-
pany's ship Rose, Capt. SANDMAN us, tO pTOCeed to
Europe, by which slip he had taken his passage,
and .would sail in a few days. The Cambrian is
chiefly laden with rice, and seve.;al more country
shiPs were expected to sail for England with simi-
lar cargoes,

The Dime of CLABexce, it is said, will leave
England in the course of a few days tor Holland.
The Exchange at Paris (on London) 'has risen
,within a week between 7 and 8 per cent.shewing
4 prodigious demand for bills on this market.
Sir SYDNEY BECKWITU, the Quarter-Master-
General, arrived at Quebec on the 2-411,Qctober,
in-his Majesty's ship I.l%:eineSis, utter a P4ssiage'°f
22 (lays, from lialifax.
BREAD.--ln the prire of Bread fat the ensuing
week, there is Du alteration.