The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-10 00:00:00

VIE ARMY.

The whole seven battalion? of the Foot Guards
are at time on"foreign service, an occurrence
unknown in the military annals of Great Britain.
Part of the Denbigh Pro-visional igilitia,-.cOm7
mantled by Sir. IV. W. Wys NE, nearly '4OO strong,
marched through Newcastle on Saturday.,. 'Pityy
are fine looking men—their destination is 'HA-

land.
Last Thursday a.detaehment of infantry of 'the
German Legion, arrived in Canterbury, on their
route for Ramsgate : they are to.accompany
brigade of German Legion Artillery, at present in
barracks, and who are in hourly expectation of
their orders for embarkation at Ramsgate for Ha-
nover.
Yesterday se'nnight a Court-Martial WaS as-
sembled at Hilsea 1 arracjis, to try Licut. OATrs,
of the 21st regiment, upon four separate charges,
connected With his having embarked at Lisbon on
board a transport, to take his passage to Eng-
land, in which vessel there were a party .of sol-
Biers, and an officer of superior rank to himself ;
which officer requested of Lieut. OATES the per-
formance of some necessary military duty, which
he'relused to do, upon the ground that he was
merely a passenger.--Col. MAINWARING, CO4E-
mandaut at the DepOt, President.

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SPANISH PAPERS.

MADRID, JAN. 11.
ON PEACE frira BUONAPARTE.

There is not a doubt that Buonaparte is mak-
ing all imaginable efforts to avoid the 'dreadful
tempest which threatens him : unable to make
head at all the points where he sees himself at-
tacked, and 'foreseeing his total ruin if he do not
sward off the mortal blow which is aimed at, hint,
be wishes to avail himself of negociatiotis, in
'order to scup the Allies in their rapid career. In
critical situation, be can only escape ruin by
acceding to peace to preserve the Crowd of
I!'rance is now his only object ; and shoidd
succeed so -far, his projects for the future will
then develope themselves.
With this view Buonaparte- would cbeerfully
make peace even though at the expence of hu-
miliations which he would gloss Over with ho-
nourable terms, to deceive the ignorant. But,
for our parts, it appears hardly credible that the
Allies, after hating well nigh overturned the
Colossus, should stop short in their progress,
and consent that this monster shduld preserve
his existence, and much more his political
.ex-
istence.

Peace with Buonaparte is a chimera ; arid in
any peace with France, the head of the tyrant
ought to be required as a preliminary basis. It,
is with the Senate alone, composed of such men
as, though weak, may still have been able to,p,e-
serre some remains of virtue and probity, that
peace can he adjuted. To make it with Buona-
parte, is really to labour for the destruction of
Europe, which, indeed, might in that case enjoy
repose for a few months ; but this delicious calm
w9uld be succeeded by a most horrible storm, and
the Continent would again see itself inundated
with torrents of blood shed for the ambition of the
tyrant.

If the Allies leave the usurper of the Ahrone of
France' in the rank of a potentate, Ilttpingrte
will have risked nothing in the gathe ;
have gained much, when be had in effect losi,allJ
and lie will mock them to scorn ! The confedera-
tion of. the Monarchs of Europe give him: the
crown of France ! Most extraordinary N.votild it
-
be, should legitimate Sovereigns, who have seen
Buonaparte make sport of the dynasties of Europe;
dethroning Kings and Princes at his pleasure, and
pl.scing their crowns on the beads of his upstart
relatives,—must extraordinm yr‘Vould it he, should
Sovereigns, allied to avenge the iniquities and in-
famies of this.monster, consent to give the Throne
of France to such an ITsnrper, at a time when they
could eire it to its I.nrs;titti,re King, and when this.
adventurer cannot even maintain himself on the
throne without theit assistance.

The Allies, perhaps, hope the conversion of
Buonaparte Vain expectation ! As soon may
the carnivorous vulture be transformed into "the
gentle dove. They believe, perhaps, that re-
verses have abated his pride? Extravagant cre-
dulity ! They believe, perhaps, that Buonaparte
will content himself. with the kingdom of France !
Unpardonable self-deception ! To Make peace
with Buonaparte would, in fact, be to give him a
military force with which to take vengeance: It
would restore him three hundred thousand pri-
soners, and he would then have five hundred
thousand warlike troops. Thus he would' bei'&nch
stronger than all the States bordering on Wance
and the more humiliating the conditions of peace
were, so much the less would he, thirsting atter
vengeance, observe them. With the formidable
army which the return of the prisoners would
give him, and especially that of the Officers and
Generals whom he so greatly wants, he would
soon he in a situation to inundate Italy and. Ge-
rmany anew, when the other powers:, and particu-
larly Russia, had disarmed.
it is manifest self-deception to think of confin-
ing the torrent of Buonaparte's ambition. The
Allies wish for peace, the whole world dewires it ;
but it ought not to be founded on the basis of the
uti possidetis, or on that of the status quo, prior to
the present war, much less on the treaty of Pegs-
burg, or of Luneville ; it should he built ori-the
status quo anterior to the Revolution, both in point
of territory and policy ; by consequence, the cri-
winat dynasty of Buonaparte tnust return to its
original nothing. Without this principle, which
we regard as indispensable, Europe will in a short
time suffer new horrors ; and the Cabinets which
do.not now avail themselves of this favourable op-
-I:motility fur dethroning the tyrant, will have to
(:eplore their irresolution, when it is too late to
save themselves from becoming its victims.

The Houses of Baden, Wurtemberg, and parti-
cularly that or Austria, connected by marriage
with the new dynasty of France, may' perhaps. be
come obstacle to the dethronement of Buona-
parte ; but only by its co-operation in this, can
the House of Lorraine wipg out the stain, which,.
ticcording to its own declaration, it. saw. itself,
compelled to incur, either from overwhelmingeir-,
cumstances, or to give repose to Europe. And
'will not the House of Lorraine prefer the peace
of the world to the private interests of a par! -of
its ? The same rnotive of [giving repose to
Europe, which induced the Emperor to give his
(Laughter to the Oppressor of the Continent;
should now induce him to assist in the Tyrant's
dethronement, because in no other way can that
object be attained.

CADIZ, JAN. 14.--'Yesterday, arrived the Spa-
nish brig Catalina, in 31 days from the Havannah.
She brings 222,000 dollars, and produce; two
Deputies from Pueble de los Angeles came by her.
Also arrived the schooner Galatea, which left the
llavannah in company with the Mino man of war.,
which bad on board seven millions in specie,.and
produce. The Galatea separated from tlieNino
its tha Bahama chantn:l.

MAft.; •
Artnivr.b-1 1-143igolantl, Dublin, 1 Araterfora fityt-1 a-
Lisbon, t Malta, 9 tiottenburgh, 6 lieligatan4l, 2 Hol-
land, 1 Watesferd. .

PRICE OF STOCK'S
THIS bAY Al T'C'ELVF o•cLortc. •
674 Ortniitual'

•
HIGH WATEII AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning, 35 minutes after 6.1 Evening, 3 minutes alter 7.

`THE SUN.

30LEM QUIS .10CEHE FALSUM AUI/EAT?

LONDON,
THURSDAY, FEBRU_IRY IQ. 1814.

We have reason to believe, upon authority,
which has never deceived us, that I\IIfRAT has ab
solutely signed a Treaty of Peace with theEtri-
peror of AusTRIA, and is to bring-30,060 men into
the field 'to to-operate With the Allies. This de-
fection of the Brother-in-law of the Corsican
Tyrant will, it is to be hoped, prevent all nego-
ciations calculated to secure his usurpation of the
Throne of France, and precipitate his fall.
The Cow PRINCE, we are assured, bad en-
gaged to bring his army to the Netherlands by
the 14th instant.

The intelligence respecting the entrance of the •
Allies into Brussels, .which we announced on,
Tuesday night, and which, curiously enough, fur-
nished second editions to several newspapers
of yesterday, is further . confirmed by tire ar-
rival.. of a vessel from Ostend, which left
that Port in a state of utter- consternation, in
'consequence of the rumours whiCh Orevaiied of
the rapid advance of the Allies under General,.
BuLOw., After occupying Brussels on the Ist, ft
is reported, that Ghent was' taken possession of
on the 3d, that Bruges would be delivered on the-
ensuing day, and at Ostend they looked for a visit:
on the day following. The garrison is
repre-
sented as not exceeding 1000 men at the utmost ;.
the_Civil Authorities, the Commissary of Police,
&c. had retired to Dunkirk, and the merchants
were preparing to secure as much of their pro-
petty. as possible by means of small craft to carry-'
it off coastwise. Even Dunkirk, however, is not
reckoned safe, and the want of a force to op-
poseinvasion in this vital quarter of the French
empire, affords us great hOpes of speedily having
our communications from the Continent by the
shortest route, namely, from Calais to Dover.
The garrison in Antwerp-, which is, of course,
observed by a division of the Allied Force, has
been greatly diminished in numbers by the
secession of .General MAISON, who has retired
inland, towards Ath and Tournay, leaving the
whole coast to be dealt with as the invaders think
fit. The French threaten to inundate the Poi-
' der, in order to preserve Ostend. Should they
resort to this measure, the effects would .be.
dreadful.

We have extracted from Spanish P.4pds, a very
able and satisfactory exposition of the oblique
policy pursued by BUONAPARTE with regard to
Spain. While offering to restore FEPeDINAND-, the

Corsican and his official papers continue to style
JosEP " KING.'' Of what place is 'he Kirtt, ?
Are we to have double Kings of Spain, as well as
double Moniteurs?- One of them must be sum:
•
pressed.

We this day lay before our Readers a mass• of
selections from American Papers, which will be
found to possess considerable claims to their at-
tention. Among the military events which have
tended to the brilliant close of the second Ame-
rican Campaign for the Conquest of the Canadas,
the taking of Fort George, the strongest and only
commanding point ou the Niagara frontier, is by
no means the least important. This event, which
may be considered as nearly restoring to us all
that was lost in Upper Canada, took place on
the 12th ....._nectllnher,,..when..Colonel MUURAY drove
the enemy across the Niagara without firing a
shot. The wreck of their flotillas on both Lakes,
the frustration of the projected attack upon Bur-
lington, the re-occupation of York Town; the
disgraceful termination of the expeditions of
HAMPTON and WILKINSON, are e.nongh, we should
imagine, to sicken the Yankees of this most dis-
astrous war. Our North American accounts, in
commenting upon the dispatches of the hater
person, seem to consider him as labouring. under
a lamentable infirmity of mind. They describe
the commencement of the winter season about
the middle of December, as having put an end it;
all active military 'operations for some months,
and speak in confident terms of the preparations to
receive the enemy, had he penetrated further into
Lower Canada, which would have aggravated his
misfortunes ten-fold. They represent the Ameri-i
can army as insufficiently clothed, ill fed, and
miserably sheltered in their new quarters at
French Mills, where- they are compelled to en-

. . .
cant? fur .the prOteßion• Of their Ctitniiithis arid-
lery, till the establishment of the winter roads
enable them to transport it toWards Champlain.
We insert, among other thingt, the tWo Ge-
neral Ordei:s. to whicli We alluded Yesterday
that.; relating to the treatment of prisoners, in
reference to what has been called the retalia-
tory. system, demands not, only public no.;
tice, but the firmest and most tletertnifidtt re
solution on the part of his Majesty's Govern-
in.ent. • We. rejoice therefore to learn, that Bri-
tain will not consent to treat with America so
long. as 'the vague and lawless chin etas of her
President are set up in defiance of every principle
hitherto recognized by civilized nations---that we
A
will enter into no terms with a.country which vio-
lates•the.firstund most sacred canon of national law,
by visiting upon prisoners of war, under the
plea of retaliation, for what I—for rendering Bri-
tish Subjects, wko have no power to throw off
their allegiance, amenable to, the laws of their
Country; Upon this point we must take our
stand, if we do not desire to see the Forests of
America made populous by persons seduced by
every possible means from the service of their
King and Country, and tempted to exeliange the
.honest fame of loyal men for the infamous charac-
ter of traitors, by the arts And artifices, by the en-
couragement and protection, nay,we have reason to
believe, by the threats and intimidation of the Ame-
rican Government.- As some proof (if further proof
were wanted) of the truth of this statement, we
beg to refer_to the following paragraph horn the
ColuntLian Centincl, which developes the success
of one of these decoys so unceasingly employed
4, On the lath inst. the Majestic anchored in Pruvincetown,
to itivdid the storm. Next day she took possession. of the sloop
Union, Berry, from Boston for New York, took oat. her cargo
and gave her up, and she sailed on Sunday for Barpstable, in
conipatiiwith a schooner from- Salem. to Philadelphia. • The
-Commander of the Majestic agreed to ransom the sloop and
cargo for 8.000 dollars. One of her lintenants went on thore
on Friday evening, with two boats, to get the money, (which
however could not be prociared,:i and left bis men in charge of
astoall midshipman—during his absence 6 of the men, all well
armed, took to their heels, and made off. Captain llArEs,
thinking his men were harboured in the town, sent on shore
Alstter, demanding their delivery up, and in case of refusal,
, be'threatened todestroy the town, and all the vessels in the
Aarbour—being assured, however, that the men had left the
nv act of violence was committed. There were 16 men
in tht 2 boats—those left made no exertions to stop the de-
serters."

The MornOg Chronicle has accounts from Jer-
sey that some priest from Normandy has dissuad-
ed the Duke DE BERRI from landing on that
Coast, as it is lined with guards, and a number
of persons had " suffered military execution in the
neighbourhood, who have been stupected of a
disposition to •aid and abet the appearance of any
branch of the BOURBON family within the French
territory"—(we thought the whole population
had been attached to BUONAPARTE !) The Morn-
ing Chronicle has brought Count MERVELT to this
country, as Ambassador from Austria.

By the Gentleman who favoured us yrith the
report which be brought from Helvoetsluys, in-
serted: in our paper of Tuesday last, of the en-
trance of the Allies into 'Brussels, we learn that
he had a few days before passed through the lat-
-tet place there were but tiO Frenchmen in it,
who were in the utmost trepidation,• not only for
fear of the arrival of the Allies, -but of the ven-
geance of the people at large. As a proof of the
. \
disposition of the latter, a number of musicians
had formed themselves into a band, in order to
greet the arrival of the Cossacks with the sounds.
of triumph.

• A curious Speech front TEctrasEif, the Indian
Chief, to General PRoc-roa, is given in ouf first
page•

The press of temporary matter has hitherto pre-
vented our offering any observations on the sin-
gular manner and nature of the communication
which was made under the form of it suppressed
Mon/tear, of the 20th of January; and, encourag-
ed by our .tilenec, it is not surprizing that the
Faction, who iii every act of the Government find
only ground for cenzmre, should have been loud
and 'clamorous in their- yells of condemnation

againse' some impropriety which they fancy they
have discovered in this every way suspicious do-
cument;--suspicious as coming from an Enemy,
.and cloably.suspicious. from the mone and circutn-
6tances of its publication. Did. we expect any
thing like patriotism or sound 'reasoning from
these ?arties,.we should express our wonder at
their, reception„ as 'an indubitable. and sacred
Canon, of a statement evidently and 'avowedly
put forth by the adversary, and in a clandestine
way, too, to answer a specific purpose, viz.'to
counteract the effect which the apparently pacific
Proclamations of the Allies had produced on the
'public mind of France. So dangerous an impres-
sion, it was of vitaVnecessity to the Tyrant to
counteract, and surely we know enough of his
char.acter for duplicity;, falsehood, and villany,

hot' to ihai
moral tirtut which Would WitbliOld hire froin ut-;
terilig a few untruthS.if he supposed they wo.ild

answer to important a purpose.' fitroisidirArrs
had then every reason that could weigh with him

to make out as good a Case as he could;--his

crown and lite vire confessed; in the Gazette de
Pratte, to have depended upon it--and Mr. St..

AGNAIT'S ex-parte testimony must be congidered
as founded on this oblique

It will-strike every man at first sight, thk tb
Story told relative tti the suppression, ihid the.
causes assigtAtllor the after promulgation, of thii
correspondence are altogether improbable. The •
people bad begun; to question the sinCefity of thg
Cotsican--the " artifice" of the Allies was neat
being successful," the people said," why not
make peace, and end these misfortunes r.l--; •
• " such was the state of the public mind, When the
double- Moniteur revealed the trite state of the
.questidn." This is the. picture drawn by thi •
Paris Journals--=they describe the empire of Na
as in the utmost peril, from the action of
popular opinion, till the publication of these
papers, like a talisman, allayed the ferment and
rallied all ranks round the ThroUe of their be-
fore suspected Ruler. The, object of the
cation being of such mighty import, how came it
that the Tyrant was so; .tardy produeiag }ll3
remedy for the threatening disorder which pre-.
'ailed--haw dared he leave the people of France
to trying conclusions" unfavoura'.)le
to him for six long- and portentous weeks
-.The trutiv&ebelieve to be, that these docull cnts
would not have passed current at an earlier pa-
riot! nay, we are firmly persuaded that he had
them not to lay before his Senate and Legislative
Body. Even now he has not the effronfery to
publish them under official authority. Bence
came 411 the shuffling about a Committee to in-
quire into and report upon the diplomatic inter'
course between the Allied Pow and the Usurper-
Hence, too, .cam,e the subterfuge, of a publcatio3
which carAies.the authenticity without the re:spore"
Act of the Go\ ernment

The Airst Papers throW a degree of ridicule Over
the Whele, and, in fact, M. ST. AGNAU'S asSel"
tions on indig'crent affairs arc so highly over-s:,l'
loured as to induce an opinion that there is little
credible in any of his more material points. Count.:
METTERNICH has been openly accused of dupli-•
city by the French Government—it was surely I'
stretch of thii sort, if he said any thing about OF
esteem felt by his Master for that wretch CAut,ll4-
Diplomatic disingennity never requirS-:,
so gross an aberration from honesty and rid, .
dealing.
But the grand question of hasty and indecent
attack upon Lord ABERDEEN has beau fourdedPll
the wording of ST. AGNAU'S memorandum, in the
paragraph which alludes to the maritime claims of
France, The Party Orgaai insultingly and Oil:
jastly,tattl. his Lordship was entrapped by
cunning Frenchman, and insinuates that the 0"
'sisters of the Allied Sovereigns winked at
piece of bad faith ; another Print of a•rnore re'
spectable cast, gives, partially, into tliis nnsur;
ported accusation, and decides at once, lightly one
indecorously we ‘vill pronounce it, upon the
sufficiency of our able and accomplished AtnlaassB';,
dor. Yet, before we look to this cbarge
own merits, let ur.see how sorry an argument the
Whig Organ has of it, even supposing that 1%.,
once itlh.ould
,be in the right, and that
AnitaDgEN had.been gulled; as it asserts, bY,tll;
tool ofCAULIgCMIRT3 urn! the Representative'
the Auttrian and Russian Emperors. What
this prove That the three greatest Powers
the Continent desired some modification, or
and definite settlement, of those-maritime e,
nations which, during the last 20 years, have 1);e'1
.
brottght to incessantly and angrily into dispute f,,
And Would the faction, the advocates for peace uP 7 r
almost any terms, the never-ceasing croakers ttl,
entering into nagociationa, would they, we rePel"
have had Lord ABERDEEN refuse to allow the 1/I'.
ragraph on this subject to be inserted in Mr-
ACNAIT'S note ? If, as he says, " England. ‘o'
not even listen to any pretensions of France t,l
freedonz of co4unerce and of navigationsbe
rather wage.,-wat' singly against the- world, °/111,
suffer a.q. claims *which that country imagilv •
may be-justly urged to be mentionedin negoci:
tion----Ndrolu'may go and make your COt,.
nental Peace, we are resolved to allow no 1335 5,
which can alone lead to the accomplishment of
General Paciflcation."—Sucha declaration wOl
indeed have been at a variance with all the tiOlvd '
als of.moderation made by the British Govern,
went—and yet; such is the declaration -for ()di
adhering to which Lord ABERDEEN is COlldelllUed
and it is gratuitously supposed, that in col'sl
quence of this error, it became necessary for Lop.
CASTLEREAGH to hasten to Germany
of We•grantoth*this question, like the apple '
discord, ititi'l:tbi,bwn in by the Frenchman, II

COUL:T.