The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-29 00:00:00

'FflO-I`,l THE BERLIN GAZETTE OF Dl3O-3.

VIENNA, Nov. 24.—The report that negotia-
tions towards a general Peace will again be renew-
ed has gained ground within these few days. It
Is grounded on the circumstances of the nince
VoN. STAIIRt.NIBERG formerly Ambassador froth
tbci. EMpetor of AUSTRIA to the Court of London,
being sent for to this city ; from which many
conjectures are formed.
Btams, Drc.. 42.—Our Gazette contains the
following :

ilisMajesty the Emperor has just appointed
the General of Division DEss.lx, Governor or
Berlin, lin the place Of the General of Division
DURU. TTE, who has left this place.
" His Majesty the EMperor NAPOLEON, who
N'T'aS in excellent health, had his head.-quarters on
the 3d at Molodzitzno, a small town on the ci-
Clevan t Palatinate of \Vilna, between 16' and 18
miles 'distant from Wilna, and 10 or 12 from
Minsk.'--:(Correspondent, Dec. 15.)

,• GOTTY.NBURGH;‘ DEC. 21.—Acedunts froin .Co--
tienhug,en, dented the 17th December, state, that
a. French Coufier arrived there on 'the 15th,-
'bringing a ,report of a battle fought On the 28th'
and 29th November', between General TscHrr-
'CliAGOVlr aid WITTGENS.TEIN and the Grand
Army, in which,. of &use, it it said the French
were completely victorious; taking 10,1)00 pH-
,
soners.

It is also said MURAT, King of Naples, was at
Konipherg, with both his legs off.
The Prussians have retreated from before Riga.
the Russians have entered Liehan, and were ex-
pected at Meniel.

Lard ffoLLANI) gave a 'grand dinner on Monday
to the Spslvish(iAmhassador and a select party, at
his lionge in York-street, St.-James's.

Mr. BETTY made hits firs=t .appearance at the
Windsor Theatre on Saturday evening, in the cha-
racter of Achinet, in Barbarossa, to a very crowded
and .brilliant audience.

BREAD.—TO-day there was no Court of Alder-
men held. The Lord-Mayor, after inspecting
the returns, ordered the price to be reduced a'
farthing in the quartern loaf.

'FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, DEC. :0:

. .
This day, Sunday; December the 20th, 1812,
at npon,,the Emperor, being seated on,Lis throne,
surrounded by the PrinceS, Grand Dignitaries,
Cardinals, Ministers, Great Officers, Great Eagles
of the Legion of Honour, and attendants of his
NajeSty,—receired the Senate; %rho were c9n7
d'ucted to this audience by a Master and Assi'stant
brthe Ceremonies, introchced_by his Excellency
the Grand Master, and presented by his Serene
Highness the Prince Vice-cirand Elector. 11i4
E?ccellency M. th:t Count Lacepede, tie Presi
dent,,delivered the f6iiowirig AddreiS

`,.` SIRE,

The. Senate bastenS to preSent; at the foot ;if
your erial and:Royal. Alaj,tsty 4.'l2hrone, the
offering of its.cOngratulations on the happy,.ar
rival*. your Majesty amour your people.
":•The abcrice:6l your Majesty, Bine, is always
a national calamity, while your presence, is a Vess-;
lug which fills- the.whole French peciiiiF •ivitli joy,
and confidence.

“.Your Imperial and Royal
,Maje,3ty laid
the bases of t 1::: organi7:lttien of yo'ar vast
empire but many objects yet rentain to be con-
solidated or executed ; and the stiiallest delay in
the completion of Our institutions is'a national
inisffrtune. •

" While your . Iniperial Majesty, Sire, was: at
eight hundred leagues fromat the
head' of yqur Victorious armies, attempts were
made to diSturb publie,ord-r in this great capital-,
by men who had escaped from prisons, in• which
your Imperial 'clemency had sai-ed thertifrom
death, Merited by their past crimes. They have
paid the penalty of their new. ()Likes.
. .
Happy Fiance, Sire,• whose monarchical con-
stitution places her beyond the reach of civil dis-
cord;—o£ the bloody feuds to which party gives
birth,—and of the horrible diStractionS which re-
volutions engender.

"- The Senate, first Council of the Emperor, and
:,hose authority ,nnly iias eitistence when the Mo-
narch calls it rorth, and puts it in movement, is
established for the conservation of tlit monarchy,
and ,of the. hereditary succession to your throat;,
under our fourth dynasty.
" France and posterity wsll find it, under all
circumstances, faithful to. this sacred trust ; and.
all its Members will be always ready to die in
defence of that palladium of national security and
prosperity.
" In the- conimencements of our ancient dynas-
ties,' Sire, the Monarch has been More than once
seen to Ordain, that a solemn oath should, by an-
ticipation, connect the French of all ranks with the
heir of the throne ; and sometimes, wLen the age
of the young Pri:lce permitted it, a. crown was
placed upon his head, as the pledge of • his future
authority; and the emblem of the perpetuity of the
Government.

. " .The affection which the whole nation feels
fin• the Ki-hg of Rome, proves, Sire, boti-. the at-
tachment of the French to the blood of your Ma-
jesty, and that internal sentiment . which re-as-
stu•es every citizen, - which points out to him,
in that-august infant, the security of his own chil-
dren, the safeguard of his own fortune, and an in-
sumoun table obstacle tc intestine divisions,
those civil agitations, and those political revolu •
tions, which ai-e the greatest scourges that can
afflict nations.

Sire, your Majesty has Avaved the French
eagles over the towers of Moscow. The enemy
could neither arrest your• success tun• thwart your
but-by resorting to f.he frightful resources
of despotic governments,creating deserts o❑ all
his frontiers, carrying conflagration into his
provinces, and delivering to the flames his capital,
—the centre of 'his :riches, and the growth of so

ea in different epochs of our history ; I will still
think of it.
The war which I maintain with Russia is a
war of policy. I have waged it Withotit ani►nosi-
ty ; I • could have wished to Spare her the misfor-
tunes whiA she has caused herself. should have
been able to arm the greater part f her population
against her, by proAaimink liberty to the slaves ;
a great-mimber of \-iilages demanded it of me : but'
when I perceivcra 'the brutality of that numerous,
class o 1" the Russian,people, I refused to accede to
a measure which Nv-11 a have deVoted Many fami—
lies to death and the rp,,Hlorrible punishments.
My army has sustained 1:-)sses ; but they arose from
the premature severity of the season.
I accept the sentiments,littich you express-to
wards Inc.''

After this audience, -the Council, of, State,, con-
ducted mid introduced with the, same forms, were
presented to his Majesty, by his Serene Highness
- the Prince Arch Chancellor of the Empire.
His Excellency M. the Count Defermon, Mi-
nister d State, President of the Section of
narices,spoke Ps follows :
Sire, the first wish which the Merribers of
your Council of State feel, in common with all
your faithful subjects, is to lay at the' feet of your
Majesty's throne, their cougratoktions.on your
happy return ; and to express- the sl:itillentS of
gra.,-irtie with which they are no k‘arn-
iog.that your Majesty is.cOnie to crown by your
presence theboyes add Nvishes of your people.
" Whifst in the:absence of your Majesty we
were employing otirselteS in those labours with
whi .h you deigned-to, entrust us, and whilst every
indment of our time was occupied in the execu-
tion of your orders for 'the happiness and prospe-
rity of the -empire, we were frr from conceiving
that ‘any Frenchman :could- forget tivise sacred
and protecting prineiples which _have extricated
us frOnt anarchy, and which should ever secure us .
from it. .

Sire;--:-It was with the .Most • prOfound grief
th'at we witnessed the crime committed by a ma-
niac, who, for a previous offence, hail deserved
punishoient ‘vh.ich your Majesty was so generous
as to remit.; but his attempt has only served to
convince our old enemies of the fruitlgssiiesi of
similar plots, and to-prove anew the sincere at-
tachment of all tne functionaries of the%etupire to
the constitution which your ,1116esty has given to
it. All partiv.s in the einpire,exhibited proofs of
their attachment- all your subjects have • ri-
valled the publ'c funs ~,,3ries in respect for prin-
cipit.---, and attachment to your sacred person,
and your augu: r •
" 601, whd 'prottcts France, will long preserve
her from the greatest of rnistort4nes. But in such
an event, every heart would around the
Prin :e who is the•object of our hop.. and prayers;
aid every Frenchman would renew' at his, feet
the oaths of fidelity and love for the Dinperor
wham the COustitution would call to- the suc-.
cession. • , .

ROMAN" CAT HOLT C

(Contitmed from our Vaper of:Yesterrilay.)

" The Romish:lirch, tbd; it should be 'con-
sidered, does not allow at-, appeal to thelioly
Scriptures.--4t professes indeed to stand on an
authority of Scripttire, but it will not allow its
own construction of Scripture to be disputed.
Under the shelter of that authority, it-claims for
itself the infallibility which 'belongs only to the
Word-of Him who eannot err.—Nav, it prohibits
the free circulation of the Scriptures, and in their
place substitutes the nuthoritV.Of its own canons;
decrees, and tradition. Nor .is this allthe
chains which..-it 'thus fastens upon its votaries are
riveted by means of the tremendous powers of
excommunication ansi,absolution —powers,"the
former of which may -extend even to deprivation
of the necessaries- of ljfe, whilst in the ,exercise of
the latter, a laity, purposely kept in. ignorance,
are led to consider the priest as the- arbiter of
tlfeir future deglinies. '
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