The Sun.
London, England, 1815-09-30 00:00:00

ELECTION OF L(RO MiIYOR.

Yesterday being Michaelmas Day, a Caimork
pall was held in Guildhall-, for the pdrpbse of
.
chbosing two proper persons to be returned to
the Court of Aldertpeii, in order that thq 'might
elect one of them Cher Magistrate for the ensuing-
•-vehr. • •

All 'the narneS' being called over of those per
Sons eligible to serve the office, the greatest thowt
of hands appeared in favour of MATitrov WooD,
Esq. and SAkt."2.t. GOoroAritErti:, Esti.- and these
aentletnei) were accordingly returned to the Court
of Aldermen... After a ,short -4ellbetation,. •the
tourt deClared th'eir choice to have fallen uport
MATHEW WOor;., Citizen and Needlemaker.,
The nelits elected Mhyor baying been inveted
.I:vith the iriAgniA of office, Vettirned thanks for
the hotiour which had been eonferred tipon'him.
He would make no professions, but hoped they
%Vold(' intige of hirO by the test of experience.
lie would, I. owe% er, declare; that he would main...
as tar As lay in liis power, not only the tights
and privileges of the citizens of London; but af'
all 'the .world. 'referred the Lvery to tLe
strict attendance be hail given in the Hall for the
last three years As an iwn'anee of what they might
expect him to perform in hiS new and arduous
A.litit.et all; he would'atsnre theft), that
lii' enjoyed ihe office Of Mayor, it should
rt,.‘t ite diSgraced for want caller of hospitality or

Jt is tl)lt WILLIAM LiE VIS, Eig.
h-is prop(Aed paying, the tine fuse Iteritf, rather
CiAl serve the oak,. 61) the pt, p•rit oecaion.

THR,THEATRE.—MSS'IIUGH,s last night made
tier second appearance at Covent-Garden Tneatre,
in the paill'of iliandtaw,l;nd confirmed the favour-
able opin:bn WhiCh ber trst performance had ex-
She sung with more self-possession. and
IVA'S More simple hi' her deportment. The Duet
Fair Aurdra, between her and SiNcLAIR, waR en-
cored. "In infancy," was so well sung by Du-
Ikt.,ETT., that he also had an encore. The point
lit Air of " The Soldier tied," which is generally
used as a vehicle, for executive power, and scieu,
tific skill, was so successfully given by Miss
HodugS; that it was loudly encored. The I'ouse
laud a numerous audience,

The Stiseks' keep gradually rising, just as they
did, at the close ofThe first American War, ‘vhett
the 3. per Cent. Consols. progressively rose -to
104 and. considering that we are now at peace
with ail the wdrld---the large foreign orders which
havealrOdy produced a bustle in all our inanu-
f-acturing-towns unknown fur 20 years past—the
daily operation of the Sinking Fund, ,and the
metise purchases made by out continental neigh-
bent's, we shall riot be surprised in a few weeks
to find the ConS'ois...the sane price they were
.at
bcforelitonaPartwas sent to Elba, which was
73, and i.f so, it will mid npwardS of 30 petb•icneitntdt.
to the v,a'eA- lu the 8 prizes 0150,0001., 4 Prizes
cff'-.0,0001., and all the other Stozk Prizes in the
present novel Lottery, as Goviet'olorot
to itiansfer them to 'the fortnnate:holgers at the
very low price Mr. Blikt contracted for,, which
was 56; therefore, cvery. Adventurer now has an
increasing advantage neverithOwn in any former
Lottery, • and all the CapitalS tnay be drawn 7th
of November, ,

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II oth SJL ht.

cont.EN rz, SEPT. 17.

'FROM THE RHENISH MERCURY.

Ilr'ill (for-many or France llocorer its Inti*rity
Alarming reports concerning Ore turn svhiclt the
.ilegociations for peace have taken, circulAte in
Certuany, because no firm coufulence has any
xvbere taken root, or can >c jitstified,,boPe cannot

t►►aiutain itself, and vhjt is still unknown and
na-
►leveloped, i►ppears in the Oottb-ting annrehen-
sioni of all, like some great misfortune, still veiled

In contrast With this timidity, the French arro-
r...anc'e is loud and confidently displayed ; it thinks
it cannot fail of success tigninst that oft-tried,
ueryeless, perplexed, nod soul-less policy which
has so often lavished with mad prodigality what
TiCtOrN4 had earned ; that they, though reduced to:
hr;;gary by the vissicitudes of fortune, may still
hope to acquire great wealth again, by sliing in
the troubled ‘vafer,, of Germ Any.

Thus their friends rise, and they giro. out. that
the in.ctlrity of their territory is recognized, and
only.the-sOuls Ceded to them by the Treaty of Pa-
ris shall be given up, and then Landau, to stop the
mouths ot the importnnate brawlers in the Em-
pire, -and then, too, a little money,, the interest
perhaps of taw stolen property, 'which ha§ been
running up since the hntae of Leipsie. Foreign
'garrisons keep the fortfesses for two years, in
o;der,'when France has recovered from her de-
feats, and her armies are again upon a formidable
'footing?' to give them hack again. • •
We say it is false, it is impossible that pc-ace
cp.n be concluded upon theSe conditions. For,
firstly, what power would he prestuninuous enough
to act in such scornful contempt of the innate
'conviction of tie whole-German people, and to
offer them, such a Treaty for their sanction !
Who would hind himself to sign a deed which
would eternally stand in all history a sealed in-
strument, and .a monument of extreme debase-
ment ; and ought therefore to be deposited in the
interior of the boastful Vendome cotumn
It is a secret what the German lation
-and justly expects from this peace, since it seeks
tibthiu'g but its• rights and, the conditions of its
political existence Is it one, or even thousands
only, who are unalterably convinced that the ft on-
th:rs mud, he extended a secured ngainst
France, i
if Germany is to exist n peace and
liifv:f are there not 30 millions v‘ho. anxiously
and incessantly hold die same I ungnage ?
Is it only the more refitted rhis'ses who, pre-
tnmptnonsly'Outrinining •the times, make those
cleman& ?—Ask in, the' cottage of the peasant,
hear the ci•izen speak, attend to what is s:uid in
the, streets, in all companies, go to the Vistula,
the E:be, the Weser, inquire from the Danube to
the Rhine, read in all the pamphlets, all the join.-
lulls, let the armies speak, among all • classes and
ranks you" hear the same language; every where
one word, one feeling, one rxpressiou ; the eon-
rttry appears.to all to
.be itliotcy and nonsense ;
they seta curse even upon the conception ot other
thoughts, and harully allow the possibility ot
their being pia in execution. ,
And who would take on himself the risk of op-
position, a pablic opinion so unanimous, so ter-
Ode, so irritable ? who„would prevail upon him-
self to step forward in. the eyes of a. nation' which
has so dreadfully suffereJ, and then acted so grcat-
Iy, with such a work., with such a reward for
all his rahoursl,. ‘sho. could bear to read a
vtuanimons sentence of damnation in the eves of
all thc,e millions, and. their despair at -finding,
After all hopes had deceived and betrayed, the
also,. which at
.least scented to be firmly
founded .unpon. interest, reduced to nothing by.
Feeble councils

We have often heard how people looked with
tim'itity at the proceedings of the French, how
they dreamt, of slumbering energies and dreadful
.7(00:ions, and thert;fore proceeded gently and
ltniently towards them, and consented to disad-
vantageous conditions. This pretext has always•
appeared to ns to be. absurd ; it is not there that
the danger ii.s : imprudent.conduct and ill con-
sidered measures may doubtless prepare.a'terrible
re action, and, cause it to burst forth.; but this is
a more remote case—the nearest threatens from
behind : it is the.entire'degradation in the public
f?pinion, the convietion• that • would' instantly
spread lightning, that now nothing could be,
expected fi:om such weakness; and that the nation
tntst once -for all g,ive, up all
..its hopes, and re-
nounce all expectation of a better linos-hr.
in tinws when States entirely depend on the
v. ii! and faith of ail, the highest fear and danger
is, that all :nay lose this faith arid conviction, and
khe severest distress, 'can never be enough
dreaded, is such a total bankruptcy of opinion,
Avhielt no repAration'ean ever make good.
lt is not possible to imagine any potter Which
could compel :such a peace.' The. French are re-
duced to ,entire impotency, all.spirit and energy
i. 4 &Tatted from them ; they feel themselves bow.
irreco'ver'ably they are lost, if their adversaries do.
but half understand their own advantage. Nor
can the illusion take place, that was formerly
ehevished, that the devil in them is to be. tamed
by presents and sacrifices, and that the peace of
...Vorope,he pin chased by contributions; this lurk-
ing place,; in which last year cunning self-interest
took -refuge, is now ,closed; and the, very road to,
tit wllolly dammed up. The ti areats and the boait-
iott. „f th-e one party are all heroine matter of
anti the other knows that the new order
of things depends only on the power of our I„,y.
„„TN, ;an& that w,hen this prop is removed the:
whoic roust tifil together.
Tints every victory wllich they obtained in the
diplomatic transactions would he a vo.nw ,
ary pre-
sent ; it would 1)e a-triumph ivl!ich.they owed en..
lirely to their inen,t;ti -snperiffiltY, and of ~vvh!ich,
they would hoitst. reason ;it winthl he evi-
dent that there could be no fain dependence but
upon them, otherwise so nic(mstant, and never
opro our,trernailv divided, discordant, uteanly
jealOos dominnnt,
,the impotence of Perntany
v..ould he detnons,tratcd, its :•iervittide established,
and at last one 111Orinigh. p7llagiog in a `century
lie phouounced and reevlized‘as constitutionally

its lot.
'Nor cool.). it be said in excuse that tlic other

. .
rovers h all catt3edlti.3 result by Jcplous
op-
position : nu, it: xvould be solely cr own want
of firmness and decision that drove
.us to it. • Of
all those who are so ,urgent. for peace, When it
Shall he at our expense, there is none who would
be sir Cerelv disposed, for the sake of Proree and
in unison with Franec, to begin a ,war with tr';.
But they have indeed already become sutiiiqciltly
nerinainted ss:itb our weakness, and cur lint
ntSS ; tileyknow that if we do once -rouse and
courageously 6laim our right, yet there is nothing
behind, no energy, no perseverance, and that
they need but to employ a firm opposition, a little
threatening, and an angry look, to convince us
that we 11 ice gone too far, and cannot alone dis--
piite our right against all V.ttrope combined ; that
it is rather our part modestly and quietly to with--
draw, and to gnaw the bones of the beast, as our
share, in the
_next corner. •
People speak of Russia--,that it does not desire
our strength, cannot in common policy be imputed
to it as a fault ; the F:ench have said to it often
enough it might let them do as they please on the
Rhine, and on ,its side, take its share on the Vis-
tula and the Elbe ; that it must at length have
conarehended the lesson, even if • the desire of
having required an external impulse. But that
the will of a foreign power should be a law to its,
so that its opposition would alone stillice to make
its Sacrifice our clearest interests, would be an in-
lainons humiliation which must justly wake its
the laughing stock of the world,.and contemptible
in the eyes of those to whose will we ,wcee so
subinisSive.

Or ,the other side, Engiand's opposition to the
aggrandisement of Germany is 'lunch dwelt upon.
It is difficult to conceive upon wbat part of Pint's
political testament its Ministers., it they persiSt in
their opposition, found their policy-7it is certain
that if he were alive he would by no means be of
their opinion. The Manner in which they have
hitherto sinned, in respect to Germany, is the.
most inexcusable of all that has passed ; tts ;i
secret, appetite impels them to keep us- weak that
they may one day 'wholly devour us or divide. us
with the French ; and us titer, elevated above the
immediate interests of the continent, have the first
coil to maintain right .and justice, and, like the
pendtihnti of a clock, to regulate the whole work
by ‘visdoin and prudent moticrittic..n. Bat' it would
be the height of debasement on our riirt, if,
while we indolently sacrifice our welfare and all
onr property that we' have employed in tradhe. and
industry, to their destrit'ctive prepopderance, we
could not hy our ruin eve.n gain them.for our po-
litical Views, and for at least an ostensible' Worn-
nity for our losses there', and thus let ntIVSCIVC6
he tatined and carried of by the devil absolntely.
gratis.
Russia has taken a part in this last w.ar, which
was so remote train its interest,. only inasmuch as
it would hot xvithdraw front the old common union
at the moment of danger, nor free itself from en-
gagements before Made. Its interests in the cause
is grown cold ; that it retires front it, though too
hastily indeed, is expfainvd by Very natural causes.
England has also 'obtained all its. ends ; its parti-
cipation is also subsided, and it seeks perhps but
alternately to alarm and to raise France, in order
to extort from it an adviaittageous commercial
treaty. It is we alone whose pretensions are via
Wholly unsatisfied ; our share is withheld front
is, and we must naturally he the last in the field'.
Let the others go their ways'; we alone are strong
enough, it xve are but itnanimot4g, to aSsets our
rights against any, one who should think to en-
croach.on tbem.

Or is it trite iliat no, considerable opposition
from without is made to our claims, but that it
is rather internal Jealousy that. keeps. them down;
and beeause each grudges an advantage to the
other; they find themselves at the end all deceiv-
ed-togethcr. Au old writer, centuries ago, speak-
ing •of.the concerns of .Germany, said there would
be no peace till all the clocks in the Roman Ellyn e
-struck one at- the saute moment. A mighty haul •
had set all the clocks to one ; but though the
works inside are, good and uniform in their mo-
tion, the hands are loose, and it is not possible..
to make theta agree.
Yet even this %you'd pot suffice to explain the
conclusion of such a" peace.. At Vienna, indeed,-
all the acts of the Congress passedin these bicker-
ings, but the question there was to renounce
claims and -sacrifice rights, iii order, by sacrificing
some mrticular interests, to Intain a higher ob-
ject : but add to the arrogance displayed'there,
such an irresolute tameness, which bows to fo-
reign-el:mums as humbly as it' then despised the
claims of the native country, would he too odious,
too desperate a supposition,. which -we ' cannot
give way to, till we can no- more evade, till it is
forced, upon us by the evidence of fact.
What ! shall the story of the list • Year be re-
poated among
,us ; shall the frontier- provinces
attain groan, beneath the weight of the armies,
while the French, but ;lightly hurtitened vtith
theirs, turn US into ridicule ? '
Fragile; rotten, and loose as the bond of our
cOns,titution is, shall we, after having found an
easy means of surrounding our elves, at least on
one side, with a, wail of brass, foolishly let slip the
precious opportunity which'we have in our It nulls,
and leave our country open and unprotected as a
carele-is landlord his house, that ,tmur enemies may
come over at their pleasure, to oppress and to yob
us ? It- would be. incredible, if it had been, and
existed so for centuries.
Your fine Rhenish Provinces, your-safety, and 1
the good of the German people that, iniv4iit you,
would then be 'infamously sacrificed, you rvould
he the first lamentable sacrifices of such a treaty,
and the first sure prey of the cunning enemy', who
in his lowest degradation, in his severest distress
would have gained the fairest victory'. War has
not yet raged long enough.upon your plains, the
- centuries in which you are given as'aprey to this
; nation is not Ye! full, fior has sufficient blood been
1 yet shed. ‘Vimere- any one of your ancient mno-
' meats lies in tuins; 'tis the French who-have over-
thrown it—where any of your venerable antique
temples have been consumed,. 'ifs the trench vt bo
I. kindled the fiawes ; where a palace li'es desolater
t h is, nat ion has destroyed it---where an old,cityhai.,
bee-n borat, a' fortress dilapiditted, all this comes
from the French.; And shall it be recorded that
we' bad the power and the possibility to-cast.this
enemy far from us, and time banks of ourßhine,
i to repair ancient losses, and to avert front our-

chives new and gicat iitj tiv ; mid that we li•ol
neglecfett it, and plunr,ed our children, their
descentlaurs, into. nei.V wars, whi,•lt most
necessarily he unfortunate. for thrm ? And
Gernuinv on the other bank 'be in a
, <
tinist secure condition ? lie, Wilt) luissess'6ll the
Rhine r, twins- the artery of its life, and its life
itself is in its power ;'and South Gerniany,
Stith Alsace for a bulwark would be quite secure,
will be without it,. like the Rhenish Provinces,
the constant theatre of French wars. Let it not
he said that a two years possession of the'fort-
resses would be an advantage. This could only
he in case of new wars ; and shall the') contusion
always prevail (pun earth, and people be ever
obliged to consols; themselves with the hopes of
better times? •
It is aISO a Poor comfort to say, that if the se.,
curity wag thus threatened ft om without, more
serious attention would be paid'to establishing
union at home. Hope will not at the long run
suffer'berself to he made a fool of by being sent
backward. and forward, and at last rather abandon
the whole fool's play in :indignation. And it
would -he very imprudent to let it come to this,
for it Might easily happen that one had need of
her again 'as well is- of faith, love, and enthu-
siasm, which are mostly united with her, and
they would be severely tniss,ed, if they had fled
and vanished on accpunt'of the affront that had
been offered thein.
No indeed, Germany, baS deserved a betterfate
for its fidelity and for the great energy it has dis-
played, than to be deprived of. its freedom as well
its unity, of its history as well as its coffstitution,
and novel fast of all, of its security for the future.
It has suffered itself to he stripped of the one after
the other, add hoped with the more confidenCe for
the. last, in order With it to gain the other, or at
least a quiet field its internal improvement ;if
this hlSt eXneetaticni Were di ‘appointed, what would
then be left noi`thy to excite an interest in the
people, and to unite its power in one great im-
pulse ?.
The least that could then be 'done wonlo be to
receive the messenger of such bringer of bad
news, and to turn the next anniversary of the
great battle into a day '(,)f nionrning, to let no
fires glow upon the hills, tbat the profound silence
and darknész might announce Ihe• gloomy silent
grief of the 'nations, 'as the flames before annotin-
ced their joy tind their hopes.
But let nobody fancy that such a glaring impo-
sition shall ever become matter of history and
valid in the eves of God-, and the old saying be-
come new again; all is nothing that does not re-
pose On the bask of 'juflice and •truth, anq all
most be done over. tta.aill that is not donc well.—
So it. has happened once; "Such is the nature of
this time Aich doeg not let go its tools, but bolds
them fast till they have pawl-mud its will, and
which has promised-to history :I*tiew epoch, and
to the German people a new regeneration, and
will surely keep tlll3 promise.

FRINNFORT, SEPT. 421.

EXTRACT OF A LETTRR FROM PARIS, SPPT. 17,
It has.been frequently 'repeated in • the public
prints,-that of all the forvig net S, ‘vitOin the French
so touch hate, they hate the Prussians the most. •
That is very natnied. The contest between Prussia
and France was front the beginning r,.)t a mere
cabinet or diplomatic contest, but it was and is 'a
contest between two opposite fundamental prin-
CiPlvs. 'the high spirit aroused in Prussia chiefly
Caused the fall, of Bnonapartistn. Tit e French
cannot forgive the PrOss'iatis : thus beaten down
in the open field, and unable to aveairr,e themselves
in any other way, t!-,ey spread against them ca=
iinnuies equally absurd and ill-founded. The Prus--
siaws are stated fo proceed in. France" worse than
the'Vandals in-the countries they over-run,--and
their army is said to be impired ity—a violent and
lawless spirit—pretty much•like the former hands'
of Bitonaparte-.
•
In fact,• there is scarcely a man in the Prussian
armies, who, besides, the general, disgrace of his
country, has riot sonic bitter personal insult to
revenge upon the Ft-each ; and it 'would surely
not be wonderful- if thi.: feeling of revenge ex-
pressed itself strongly.. But one need only look
with a dispassionate and. impartial eye upon the
districts where the Prussians are quartered, to
convince one's self that the saute high. and pious
spirit which has hid this aitny to-,victory, has not
&set Rid it after the victory is gained.
" 'Gentle as a lamb, and brave as the sabre,"
was the'motto of the harbinger of this great epoch,
the late Sehill and his companions—and this motto
sects s to have been implanted in the timGs'and iu
the army.
If Prussia now demands back a part of the
boundless pillage which has been extorted and
squeezed out of it in seven drea:iful years,. only
One reproach can be matte it, in respect ()fits pre-
,tensions on this 'tread, viz. :—Thot they. are too.
insignificant, and do not afford its people their due
indemnity and.relief. But as for the conduct of
tile troops, and the relation of -individual French
to the Prussians, no where can a !MM.: tranquil
and orderly state of things he found than in the
districts occupied -by the Prussians; and no where
do the foreign troops and the -inhabitants' live in
more harmony together ; so that it is really sur-
prising how .'the private relations of individual
French and Prussian, contrasts with the general
barred of the french towards the Piussians.
That some disorders and excesses occtirred,
particularly at the time when the victorious Prus-
sian troops followed with such rapidity the frag-
ments of the French armies in such hasty marches,
Will not be wondered at, especially as they Were
often in want Of the most necessary supplies, but
the general sentiments of the army imposes its this
respect a severe check upon the individuals who
areiotherwise dispdsed, that the strictest military
discipline could he.,;
That for the rest, an artnythat is so natioilal'ai
the Prussian, that has been funned and is held to-
gether by a certain feeling' , in which. there is so
large a number' of men, into have enjoyed a cent-
.pletely scientific education, who arc accustiwted
to the strict legal forms of civil lite., that such au
arrnycan neet.r degenerate into an arl'ogant,. un-
governable pnetwian hand, is a position which
only malice or folly can Well qUestion.— (Frank-
Icn4 German Gazette, Sept. 21) .