The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-07 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

MkSSINA, DEG. 3 .—The Ettglilh Whose domina-
tion in Sicily occasions a greqt al diScotifent there,
have lately caused a number of aittests to-take place;
tvhich they have endeavoured to glow.,oysr with the
following. Proclamation

" SICILIANS,
"The commandant of the British forces in Si-
tily has felt himself under the severe necessity of
causing a certain number of persons to be arrested.
They were in correspondence with the enemy ; and
,their objet was to deliver up Sicily, as well as the
flglislt army, her faithful-ally, into the hands of
.those who Wish the destruction of both ; but their
rntrigues, which were long watched, have at last
been unveiled.

". SICILIANS.
All who' were acceSsat y plok,Thave • npt
been'arrested, but all ot. theM ;_and it
has been deemed sutficient for the 'pl'eSelit for the
present to secure those who had taken the most.
active part.
"An interval of three days is granted to such
Peraons as were engaged M this plot, and are not
Under arrest, in (rider to repair their hid( by a full
and sincere confession. There • are pools 'against
them not less clear than those which caused the arrest_
of their princinal accomplices; 'arid it is well known 7
that English Generals are not in tie habit- of order-
Ing arrests without proofs : the long patience which
thty have thought it their duty.to exercise renders
this sufficiently manifest. Let those, then, who
are implicated in this conspiracy, present them-
selves ; and, by acknowledging the part which
they have taken, let them facilitate the punishment
of the guilty who would have betrayed weir coun-
try. Pardon and protection are solemnly promised
to -sucn as shall manifest their repentance within
the
,period above prescribed.
By order of his Excellency,
W. TAYNTON, Mil. Sec.
Heaclaluarters, Messina, Dec. 3, Air."

This Proclamation, in which, the Sicilian Govern-
ment is not even named, sufficiently shew,., that the
English rnti•it
_.have tor enemies in that E'ohntiy, both
those whom . their tv rattily disgusts, and those in

‘vllolll an entighienea knowledge of their true in-
terests induces a that this fine province

Should enter into the political system of the European
Continefit. _

MADRID-
, DEC. 5 ,—General D'Armagnac, basing
set o'e trout Befmonte, advanced upon Tarazona,
Where he defeated the corps which observed the
banks of the Jucar ;. he marched upon Iniesta,
vvhere the insurrectionai Junta held its sittings, and
then took the direction•of Uttel.
The insurt-!ent General' aissecoert attempted to
tilspute the passage of the river 'Gabriel ; but the
krench advanced guard., under the'orders of Gene-
to] St. Genis, having on the same day made its ap-
Pearance at the bridge of Contreras, which was oc-
cupied by the enemy, the ttilops which defended it,
4frai I of being turned, retired across the mountains
to Villa Gordos where they joined two battalions
and thee squadrons which had arrived from the
Valetician army. In spite of the obstacles present-
ed by the ground, two regiments of dragoons ad-
vanced against this corps, and the enemy took
ad-
vantage of the darkness of the night to retire. Some
Prisoners were taken, and the battalion of Daroca
Was entirely dispersed. The troops which defended
the bridge of Paxaro, over which it was necessary
for the artillery to pass, seeing themselves mined
took refuge in the mountains.
• On the 25th ihe whole division was collected at
supposing that the- enemy would endeavour
to defend himself at Requena ; but on the approach
of the aevanced guard of the Prench cavalry, Basse-
court retired to Las Cabrillss, and abandoned his
skli, who were taken. He was purShed as. far as
Siete Agnas.
This expedition has very much embarrasSed the
tinny of Blake, who was cotnpelled to detach a di-
vision to las Cabrillas. The enemy lost 200 pri-
soners, 2000 touskets, 2000 cartridge-boxes, some
Magazines of corn and clothing, 300 mules laden
with provisions for Valencia, besides 300 horses.
The commandant Morale:, on the 31st ult. sur-
prised some bands of brigands near Avilla, and took
64 prispnets.
. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 27.—A violent gale from the
N.W. has caused the loss of a ship of the line, and
several vessels coming from the Baltic.
The convoy was under the Hero, of 74 guns.
The ship ran ashore on the North Haaks, off the
Texcl. All the efforts made during the 24th, to
get to her, were unavailing, It was only on the
25th that we could approach her—but nothing
Was found but the wrecks. The crew certainly
Perished.
A brig called the Grasshopper went over the
North Haaks. The pilot 01 the Fare! going on
board, piloted her into Niew Diep, where she now
is. She cat ries eighteen 32-pounders.
The transport Archimedes ran ashore, but the
ciew were saved.
The prisoners from these two ships are just ar-
: lived here—they are 141 in number.
Two other brigs are lost to the north of the Texel
I:tut we believe the crews are saved.
Other shipwrecks took place during the same
gale on the coasts of the Isles of Eyerland and
Terchelling, and we expect positive details relative
?o them.

•
AMEABERG, DEC. 14.—0 n the 12th, at twenty-
the minutes after eight in the evening, we felt a
iolent shock of an earthquake, which, according to
itiformation since obtained, was also felt through a

great part of our chain at mountains. In the morn-
ing of the 12th, the thermometer `was one degree

neath the point of congelation ; but towards noon
4 Mild -wind blew from the South-West, and a qu'ck
thaw ensued, so that the thermometer had ri-en

twelve o'clock five degrees. The ;atmosphere was
very heavy, and filled with electric inattet'. On
• • the western horizon were collected tempestuous
clouds in fantastic shapes, Some observers, more-
o'er, allege that it lightened during the night, and
that they heard a slight clap of thunder. The shock
• was also accompanied by a subterraneou-s 'noise, re-
semblincr that of thunder, at first low, but whit:'
ark r w ards increased in violence, and' again ltiSen
'ibly subsided. The shuck was partiCcilarly
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The windows and furniture wete violently shaken,
and in several "houses afticles were thrown of :the
tables. .Persons who were in
sthe open air felt its
undulating motion, which was also, perceptible to
the miners in their galleries, as was the noise which
accompanied the shock. While the shock,. wilicit
was in the direction of from South-East to North-
East lasted, the barometer v4is twenty-six degrees,
one minute, and six seconds ; the thermometer
three degrees above the mark, and the wind was
South-East.

PARIS, JAN. 2 —Their Excellencies Marshals the
Dukes of Elchingen and Reggio ale arrived. at
Paris.
BUDA, DEC. 2.—For these some years past che:
mists have been endeavouring to find a substitute
for pot-ash, in the manufacture of glass. The pity-
sican and naturalist, M. Ostreicher, it would ap-
pear, has discovered the proper subtance, in a na.
live salt, which he calls Sal airabik notitum Hun•
garicum. This. m rterial abounds in Hungary. .M.
Ostreicher first introduced It with success into the
'Valeria:it:to-Sit:a, and having now discovered a che-
mical process by which he can separate from tt the
the sulphuric acid, natrore only remaining, he
uses it in the manufacture of even the finer species
of glass.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 2.—The great event
which was supposed to have taken place in consel‘
quence of the arrival of some officers from the camp
of the Grand Viziei, and of several hurried mili-
tary movements, is folly confirmed. The Rtssians
have passed the Danube, near Radschtick. The
Grand Vizier is in that place, whither he went flow
the island of Slohodse, amidst a shower of bullets
aimed at the vessel in which he was.

The Grand Seignior immediately ordered all the
males capable of bearing arms to march for Mount
Nomus. Several thousand men, commanded by
Patronee Beyeaka My, sailed on the 28th of Octo-
ber, for Varna.
The second Equerry 'of his Highness arrived here
on the sth from Rudschuck. The :Mali held a
a great Council on the 7th. It is not as yet known
what resolutions will be adopted by the Grand
Seignior, with resped to the events on the Danube.
Tne Seimen Paella has beet, recently dismissed
and banished io Kade Koy, a village on the coast of
Asia, near Scutari, because he had not caus,:d,a
Turk to be punished, who had presumed to mal-
treat the guard of Janissaries.

PARIS, DEC. 23 —lt is known that the.med'um
'N of man is about 28 years and a half ; according
recent calculations it would reach 31 and a half,

three years more, if the vaccine were generally
adopted : so that it is very reasonable to consider D.
.Tenner as one of the greatest benefactors to his spe-
cie 4.

...._ .
LEYBACH, Nov. 21.—1 t would appear that the
English had quite abandoned the interior of the
Adliatie. .
.. .
Maritime commerce is reviving at Trieste ; there
daily arrive vessels from Corfu, Venice, Ancona and
Ragusa, laden with oil, figs, and other .merchan-
dise. .
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The 'Governor-General of the Illyrian Provinces
coltinues to visit the d•tferent part; Of Dalmatia ;
that country so lit le known and till now neglected,
is susceptible of very considei able .amelioration.—
Next year exieritnents will be•made there with re-
sped to the culture of the cotton tree.
The population of Dalmatia, which at present
dues not exceed 35,000 50914, might be easily
doubled,
VIENNA, Dec. t t.—Vienna has been, for the
last six months, the rendezvous of a great number
of foreign persons of science and letters. M.
Fischer, of Cziak, has brought hither samples-.of
big
.fine sugar from the beet-root. M.,f-lcinrich
has communicated a method of substituting woad
for indigo. The point of assemblage for strangers is
the house
.of M. Jacquin, the literary Nestor of
Vienna.

General LO:SON is appointed Commandant of the
25th military division at Maestricht, in the room of
General Dustotimiu. -"
The warrants tor the quarterly dividends have been
received by the bankers, and the payments to them
and the public in general, will commence to-morrow
at the Bank.
John Smith and Jean Tourney, of his Majesty's
ship Kite, were tried by a Court Martial on Thurs-
day'and Friday at Portsmouth, for a breach of the
29'h Article of War, and both sentenced to be
hung.
A servant of a Gentleman in Gloster-street, Dub-
lin, of high character, Colonel Magrath, had a
child at nurse with an industrious poor family of the
name of :Reynolds, on the Broad Lays Common
near Ballyruore Ensiace ; and the poor worn 1n hav-
ing come to Dublin for her wages, there being one
year and a halt due,- tOl. was paid. '--After being at
home about ten days, their cabin was attacked in the
night ; the poor woman being far gone with child,
the husband defended the cabin to the last against
the gang of murderers. He resisted them outside
so violently that they retreated to a spot of ground,
thither he followed them, and continued assailing
h,le he was able to stand on his feet; he at length
sunk on his knee, and in this tosture he defended
himself with such determined resolution that it had.
sunk six inches in the earth, when at length, from
weakness and loss of blood, he expired under the
• unmerciful hands of the murderers ;—nor content
with this, they cut his throat and dragged him back
to the cabin-. While some of the parry were en:
gaged in murderieg the husband, the remainder were
engaged in murdering his wife. They cut ber'throat,
and also the throat of a poor beggar man who took
refuge for the !light. Their next object eras to rob
the cabin, and one of the gang in rummaging stum,
bled over a child of seten yeArs old, on which he
hid his face, insuiring familiarly,•Bet ty do you know
me. ,She, dreading the fate of the rest, replied no;.
on which he asked, Where doe: your tua,mnythide
her money ? —The child could not satisfy th !robber,
but they tooluare to empty the house of ail that was
valuable.—Freemun's journal.
Last week two men broke into a house in the
neighbourhood of Dunfermline, and stolen watch
and a pair of pantaloons. Ode of them was soon
apprehended, .and after examination was committed
to Dunfermline gaol. The watch was..found in his
possession. Next morning, on the gaoler opening
the room where he was confined, he was found quite
1 • kg. rwsPanit of his hand-