The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-13 00:00:00

rAsHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

The Duke of Portland and Mr. A. Greville, from Welbecic-,
Notts ; the Earl and Countess of Airly, at the St. James's Ho-
tel, Jermyn-street, from Scotland ; Lord Ashburton, at M ivart's
Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from Scotland ; .1. Alston, Esq., at
ditto, from Hefts ; the Rev. E. Ward, at ditto, from Hants ;
Baron Tuyll, at Greillon's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from
Liverpool; Miss Knight, at ditto, from Essex ; Mr. H. Ville-
bois and family, in Gloucester-place, from their seat in Norfolk.
CttANGEs.—Viscount and Viscountess Granville, for Wher.
stead-lodge, Sutlblk ; Lord Cawdor, from Warren's Hotel,
Regent.atreet, for Stackpole-covt, Pembrokeshire; Lord and
Lady Boyne, and family, from the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-
street, fur Hastings; the Right Hon. Lady Augusta Dillon,
from Carhampton, Hants, to Lytchett.parsonage, Dorset;
John Waller, Esq. for Sunning-hill, Becks ; Edw. Montague,
Esq., and R. Wilmot, Esq. for Whersteati-lodge; Sir B. and
Mr. and Mrs. Wrey, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square,
for Tunbridge-wells ; Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, from ditto, for
liens; Mr. and Mrs. Erskine and family, from the London
Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Brontley-lotige Kent; Mr. and
Mrs. Thompson, from the Claremont Hotel, Bond-street, for
Brightonl; Jn. Douglas, Esq. M.P. from ditto, for Newmarket;
Capt. and Mrs. Mitlford, front ditto, for Bath ; Wm. Wingate,
Esq. front ditto, for Paris; Col. and Mrs. Burgess, from ditto,
for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Gamble, from the St. James's Hotel,
for Bath.

FASIIIONABLE PARTIES.
Lord Stowell entertained a distinguished party at dinner on
Friday, at his house in Grafton street, Bond-street.
The Earl of Harrington had a dinner party yesterday, at his
house in the Stable yard, St. James's.
Lord Holland had a select party to dinner yesterday in Old
Burlington-street.

STATE SECRETS.
HUMBUG ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY,

( From the British Monitor of yesterday.)
A very curious document first appeared in the
Times about ten days since, which we have
copied into our paper. It is a note from Count
ACHILLES DE JOUFFROY to the Duke de MONT..
MORENCY, respecting the deliberations of the
Congress at Verona. The diplomatic ACHILLES
is one of the Editors of the Gazette de France.—
Ire went to Troppau and Laybach, to attend the
Congress of Sovereigns there ; and as a private
Correspondent of that paper sent it communica •
Bons. It seems that he went to Verona on a
similar mission ; but 'we have every reason to sup.
pose that he was not employed by M. de MONT.
MORENCY. Whether he was or was not, how did
this document find its way into the Times? Nei-
ther ACHILLES nor his friend M. de MONTMORENCY
could have sent it! It. must therefore have been a
diplomatic !lector, some picker of locks, who con-
trived to purloin it from the Duke de MONTMO.
n ENCY'S port feuille. But in diplomacy all these
matters are considered as bagatelles; and the
above letter is a mere trifle to the treat which
is shortly to be given to the curious ! A French.
man, who had been several years attached to the
Police at Paris, principally under the Ministry
of M. Mousueu, who succeeded M. DE CAZES,
and preceded the present Ministry, was em-
ployed to tamper with the domestics of the
British Ambassador at Paris, Sir CHARGES
STUART, and succeeded in obtaining from his
Excellency's confidential servants permission to
open the letters to and from England, which
passed through the Embassy, and to take copies
of them, after which they were again sealed up
and forwarded to their destinations ! This was
carried on about two years. When, however, the
present Ministers Caine into office, this man was;
discharged. Since then, he has been endeavour-
ing to sell the copies of all the letters, having
committed the double treachery of reserving
copies for himself, besides furnishing others to
his employers ; and he has ultimately succeeded
in selling them to a London bookseller, by
whom they will shortly be published. The col-
lection is very voluminous, and consistsof upwards
of 30 letters from his Excellency Count GROTE,
the Hanoverian Ambassador at Paris, to his Ma-
jesty GEORGE IV.; several from Prince CASTEL..
CICALLI, the Neapolitan Minister at Paris, to
Count WoßoNzow, in London ; and from a Mr.
DAltay to a noble Lord in London : these latter
are said to be very curious, as they contain politics,
accounts of opera girls, ikc. &c. There are also
several from TALLEYRAND, and from Sir ROBERT
WILSON, Whet, at Paris, to Sir JAMES MACINTOSH
in London; of course the publisher will be very
careful of what he is about ; for what proofs can
he produce of the authenticity of these letters, as
the originals are not in his possession ? It has
been said that these police operations were carried
on at Calais, and the English messengers' bags
opened while they slept. This is false, as the
messengers, on their arrival at Calais, always de.
livered their bags to the Consul. It is no more
than an act of justice to make this statement to
relieve these deserving and useful servants of the
public from the odium that has been thrown
upon them.

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