The Sun.
London, England, 1815-04-24 00:00:00

(No. I,XXV.)

ISZOIItE bES SOCIETE'S SECRETES de L'ARMEE 'ft des CON.
• SPIRATION3 NIILITAIP.Es qui ont eu po..er Objet la Destruc.
- Zion dal G,vveruement de BUONAPARTE, BWO. Pp. 246.-
- Longnian, ll.Orst, Rees, and Brown.

• Ad authentic account of any protetarigs which
'aimed at the overthrow of the tyranny of BUONA-
-I'AllTn, cannot fail to be. both interesting and im-
portant. Judging from all that transpired con-
vernitig the attempts of Mottuau, PICHEGRU, and
Nat.LET, their projects would seem to have been
less deeply contrived and less dexterously execut-
ed than alight have been expected from, such men.
{..),, their designs, further than the destruction of
./.IuONAPARTE'S Government, • little was known.
ti each of these conspiracies, Royalists and Re-
publicans were implicated. -

The work before us contains some curious de-
tails concerning their operations. It is, how:
eve!, chiefly occupied with an account of the Phi-
ladeipltes, a' Secret Society founded and conducted
by an Officer of the name of Cadet, who was killed
at the battle of %Vagrant. This iSociety was or-
ganised on a very bad system ;—it was en-
veiroped with odious mysteries' and ceremonies,
hot l'owed from the corrupted .•Free,Masonry
Continent and the infamous societies
of the German Illuminati. The , assumed
names of Thentistocles, Spartacus, &c. the almost
blasphemous rites of new baptism, the. gradation
of rank according to proficiency in the mysticism
all these are so strongly associated With the in-
famous transactions. that are recorded in the
tory of Jacobinism, that they must go-a great way
to disgust those who are acquainted with the na-
titre of the revolting proceedings for the promo-
tion of which they were first devi.:•;ed:--,-All these,
however, OUDET adOpted. The,result has suffi-
riently shewn how unavailahle.:.they.,are to any
good purpose. OUDET was by no Eflcanl nice in
the choice of those whom he admitted to the in-
ferior gradations of the Society, as may be guessed.
front his • descending to associate even some of
those Republicans who had. been banished to the
Isle de- Rite on account of the horrible barbarities
which they had committed.
If any thing, however, could make this associa-
tion in anyway creditable, besides the object of.
emancipating France from the yoke ot the Cor-
sican, it was the sanction of MottEAu, who was a
member of it. For a history of the:proceedings
of the Society, we must refer our readers to the
work itself. One of the mosf interesting parts of
it is an account of enterprise undertaken. by
6.rtte of the PhilatlelP heS tor the purpose of .seiz-
ing BUONAPARTE on his return through the Passes,
of the Alps, -after his journey to Milan to assume
the Crown of Italy. , This design was7unfortu
tiately frustrated through treachery,. by which the
Usurper was epprised of his danger, and avoided
it by changing his route. The account given of
tte attempts of MALLET and PICHEGRU is
.too
vague and unsatisfactory.
The enthusiasm with which the Author speaks
of the Society of the Philadelplies is so far ex-
cuseable, from his having been himself a poenther ;
bat he is. quite extravagant when he attributes the
overthrovvorßtioNAPAßTE in 1814, and therestora-
tion of the BOURBONS to associations. This
is quite inconsistent, even with his own account,
for 'he'acknowleges, th,t'afterthe death of OU-
DIST at Wagram, in 1809, the political existence
of the Society may be considered a's terminated ;
for OUDET, as the Author technically says,
f`-possedait seta le secret Merveilleux'de sa bier-
archie."

The Author excuses himself from the imputa-'
tion of having violated any of his oaths of se-
cresy; by thus- publisniug the operationS of the
Society, on the plea that he can he no longer
bound by these oaths,
.since the existence of the
6ociety.is at an end, and all its aims accomplished
by the Restoration of the legitimate dynasty.—
Now that a new field is opened for'the -operations
of Societies of this kind, ‘re hope that they may
be found to contribute more to put an end to the
second usurpation of BUONAPARTE, than we can
give them credit for with respect to the former,
-and thus wipe off the stain with which late events
have so deeply overspread the military character
Of the French.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

UNION-HALL,

• MURDER.—Mary Ryan, who was examined on
a former day, charged with attempting to murder
her female child, of which she delivered herself,
by throwing it down the privy,was fully com-
mitted for trial for concealing the,birrh of the
child, with intent to destroy it.