The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-21 00:00:00

tsf negociation with gI7OE7Ai'AII;FF,; he railed irt his
•attempt to restore peace; and that•that failure,tkas
owing to the implacable ambition •sof BUONAPAR'DE,,
and not to . the want of sincerity on the part of
Mr. Fox, or his friends who survived him, the Chro7
nicle, we presume, will not deny. Why then are we
to negotiate again, merely to prove that w,bich no
rational man. can doubt ? why are we to relax the
energies of the nation ? why are we to check
the exertions of our Allies;. why are we to
damp the resolution of those who seem disposed
to resist the aggression of BOONAPARTE, by entering
into a negociation, without' any prospect of success,
merely to prove that, which we repeat every man
in Europe not only knows, but feels ? Nothing can
be more easy than to declaim upon. the blessings of
peace; they are indeed invaluable, but the question
is not whether peace is good in .the abstrati, but
whether it can be obtained. Nothing can be more
unwise than .to. clamour peace, when there is
no prospect of. attaining it, beca.use it de-
presses the spirits of the people of this coun-
ti
try, while -it elevates those of Ow enemy; and
only affords him stronger inducements to conti-
nue a war, the pressure of which, by fruitless calls
for peace, you acknowledge to be severe. Can
any man, whatever his party feelings may be,
sincerely doubt, that the present Ministers; or
.their opponents,- if they were in office, would , not
gladly make peace, if they could do it upon safe and
honourable terms ? and we can hardly suppose that
any Englishman would ask for peace upon condi-
tions that were unsafe or dishonourable. What
reason is, there for supposing that BUONAPARTE
is more sincere now than he was in 1806 ? has his
conduct towards the Royal Family of Spain been
such as tovinduce us to place greater confidence in
his sincerity in negociation ? has his conduct
in the Peninsula and in the North, been such
as to induce us to believe that' he is govern-
ed by principles of greater moderation and jus-
tice than he was in 1806 ? We have thrown
out these observations upon the suppsition that
,these dispatches -contain some overture to a nego.
Ciation. We"speak, however; merely from conj, c-
lure, for we know nothing of the fact. We have
indeed heard it rumoured, that the dispatches relate
to a proposed exchange of Lord B LAN EY and Gene-
ral SIMON.

We feel much pleasure in stating this day that the
University of Cambridge has followed the example
of that of Oxford in voting Petitions to both Houses
of Parliament against the Catbolic Claims, or in
more appropriate language, in support of that vene-
rable Establishment in Church and Slate, which
has . long rendered us the happiest and freest
people on earth, 'and which, while it exists, will
preserve the British Empire in the same state
of liberty, independence, and security. The Petk
lions passed in the affirmative yesterday, and the
numbers were as follow :

For the Petitions •- 58
Against 38

By the regular series of Moliiieurs, and other
French journals, down to the gth instant,. which
were received yesterday, we learn, that the scarcity
of provisions in FranCe has at length obliged the ,
Government to acknowledge it, and to attempt to
extend some relief to the suffering people.' A De-
cree appears in the Moniteur of the 27th ultimo,
which orders a daily distribution of 2,000,000 ra-.
tions of soup among the several departments, ac-,
cording to their-tespeeive necessities, independently
of the assistance which is given to the. Poor in ge-
neral. For this purpose the sum of 22,500,000
francs have been placed at the disposal of the Pre-,
fees. This is the only, article in the whole series
of Noniteurs, as all the political intelligence was
anticipated in journals of an earlier date.

His MAJESTY, according to letters from Windsor,
gains bodily strength every day—he takes his meal*
regular, assistrin dressing himself, and takes exer-
cise it his rooms whenever he is aisposad to walk ;
the range. is extensive, and the :rooms extremely
well aired.

An Evening Paper of yesterday states, that the
Princess ofWALEs gave a magniiiCent dinner on-
Sunday last to Messrs. WHITBREAD, TIERNEY,
BROUGHAM, and several other Gentlemen of the
House of Commons.

Saturday morning the Marquis of HUNTLEY left
town,.tro attend the funeral of his mother, the Du-
chess of Gounoba. The Noble Marquis stops a day
or two on his wayat KitnbollOn, the seat of his
sister, the Duchess Of MANCHESTER.

We have authority to state, that the burial-pllCe
of the family of GORDON is at the Cathedral of El-.
gin, and, not at Kinrara, 'as has. been erroneously'
mentioned, where not one of that family haS ever
been interred; and it is by the particular request of
the late Duchess of GORDON that -her remains are to
be deposittei, there.

There have been s'me disturbances at Maccles-
field it) the course of last Week. but they have been
quelled, and there was no appearance of a renewal
of them.

BREAD.—To-day there was no Court of Allot:.
then. The Loan MAYOIt, atter iospec:ting the Ik-
turns, ordered the Assize to continue at the present
pricp-;=quartera loaf