The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-06 00:00:00

GERAIAN PAPERS.

EiRO3I THE CORRESPONDENT, OCT. 16.1
In reading the Proclamations of the Russian
Governors, the, burlesque prayers of their Golden.
Mouth (Chrys6ston), and the details of all the
snperstitious ceremonies with which they endea-
vour to indame.the fanaticism of the people, we
recollect they employed .the - same means when
Charles XII. who would have overthrown the
throne of the Czars, had he possessed as much
foresight and bravery as courge, when he con-
tended with an handful of Europeans against the
united forces of their empire. The modern.farce
of St. Sirge, and of the workers of miracles, may
be compared to the ancient comeq of St. Nicho-
las. Voltaire has transmitted to ns the public
prayers which they addressed to the patron of
Russia, after the battle of Narva. :—" 0 thou,
who art our perpetual comforter in all our adver-
sities, great St. Nicholas, infinitely- powerful, by,
what sins Inive e' o Lieu ,16.1 thee in (stir sacrifices,
genuflexions, reverences, and thanksgivings, that
thou bast thus abandoned us ? We 'lave im-
plored thy assistance against these terrible, in-
solent,,,enraged, dreadful, untameable destroyers,
who (like lions and bears who have lost their
young) have attacked, terrified, wounded, and
slain by thousands, us who are thy people. As it
is impossible this could have happened without
sorcery and enchantment, we supplicate thee, 0
great St. Nicholas, to be our champion anctstan-
- dard hearer, to deliver us from this crowd of sor-
cerers,•and to drive them far from our frontiers,
vtith that recompence which.is their due.
In comparing this prayer with the' letter which
the Archbishop of Moscow addressed to the-Em-
peror, in sending him the image of St. Sirge, we
must confess that reason has made little progress
among the Russians. ' •
'ln place. of defending the New Jerusalem, the
R‘bsians burned it ; andßastopehin, whose name
will be ever detested, has not feared to avow the
death of 30,000, of his countrymen, who were
wounded in the field of honour. '116.e is in that
crime a character of ferocity at which the imagi-
nation revolts.

rrlie savages inhabiting t4e Aluerican forests
burn their enemies, but they Will. never deliVer to
tin. flames their own warriors.

It is reserved fora RUSSiatI. to
.give the 'World
the first
sexample of so foul a deed. •
Let us.suppose for an instant that victory could
have been unfaithful to the courage of our Soldiers,
and the genius of their august chief,' and-we Shill
do ourselves a violence in considering the misfor-;
tunes. to which Lurope would have become the
prey. What massacres ! what ravages ! what
fires ! what excesses of every kind would not the
barbarians have committed, who destroy their
own country, who set their houses and cities on
fire when tl•ey dare no longer defend, them .!
Wl.at rivers of blood would have
.been spilt in
Vienna, Warsaw, Berlin, or. Paris, by the man
who could set MoScow on fire ; burn thirty thou-
sand of the bravest soldiers of his master,woundcd
in battles for their defenCe; and exposed to ruin,
without any necessity, a population of 300,000
souls. Thanks to the progress of understanding,
thanks to the great genius who governs us, and
with us defends the great family of civilized nu-.
tions. The devastating torrent is arrested in its
course, and wilt no more pass the boundary erect-
ed by victory. Yes, we repeat— it, Europe is
eared.. Never was victory more glorious or more
useful. Never did nations "owe greater thanks-
givings to the Eternal Arbitraror of destinies.

EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM MOSCOW,

DATED SEPT. 17.

"I seize th 3 first moment of tranquility, from
tile scene of 'desolation, of which I have at the
same time been the witness and victim, to write

to you.. ; -
- " Established for, 20::yeats in Russia, I had,
like all foreigners, who are neither musicians nor
dancers, nor men millinees, nor teachers of lan-
•guages, sufferod
.all. the effects of the jealous,
overbearing,. interested character, of the Rnssian
merchants. But althotigh frequently robbed by
fraudulent debtors, despoiled by speculators, over-
reached by attornies,
.1 had succeeded in forming
a solid house, and amassing a dcctnt fortune;
alas ! the fruits of twentyyears labours have been
lost in, an hour—the incendiarieS have destroyed
• the,greater.part of my warehouSes„ and 1 should
•w‘ith, my family Inive found thyself :\i'lthelit an
home,,without.asylum, if the Fren'eli troops had,
not arrested the progress of the 'flames which_
threatened my house. The ferocious -joy with
`Which_men having nothing to lose, set fire to-the
'Gernfan SlObode, which was. to Moscow what the
'suburb -St. • Antoine is to Paris, did not appear
-wonderful 'to those who knew the hatred with
which every .Russian is animated against those
• foreigners to whom Russia owes her rough
zatiOn. But will it be believed that these incen-
diaries evincedulmost the:same pleasure in burn-
ing the houses of: their own conlitrynacir ? This
fact, of which I was a witness, may perhaps;be
'explained, by adulating that those who burned
Moscow were sure of riot being blamed fOr,it at
St. Petersburgh. .
"*For a length of time, 1 have observed the
symptoms of that envious
,rivalship which existed
between the old and new capital of the Empire:
• . Moscow, rather anAsiatielhan Eliropean city,
preserved the principles of barbarity and ferocity,.
which have tilled the history of: ilassia with so
many bloody'deeds. It was at Moscow where all
those ancient families collected, who have always'
a dislike to the reigning ; it was
there that all courtiers in disgrace threw them-
_ selves' into the arms 'of the discontented.; it was
there that tho;e Conspiracies were .forined:ydlich
so frequently precipitated the Sovereig4 of Rus-
sia from their thrones. .. _
. " Without the antipathy. -of the greater 'part
:of the inen- in place arid Twerp the frightful pro-
jeet. of burn big. that commercial and inannfactuir;-
:: ing city, containing .300,000 inlnibitants, tvoniti
:never have bi.!-en 'thought of. But if any intrig-rier
has been 'able to make:the Court of Petersburgh
• believe, that by. burning-the be,-it, city in the em
pire, they Would demonstrate that that city was
winecessarl to the prosiTerity c.. the state, an it

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ItaVing'''.nilssed .Way,. he ridl hr9n:l,l:t'intu
some house by a man, vim had promised to ac-=-
•company him after -partaking of some refresh-
ments, and, Who, in probability,: had taken
away the sheet and dropped it near Inin, the rest
being a fabrication.
The Jury found him gitiltij, and it turned out
afterwards that -he was blind of oiie eye' 'only, and
that he could see perfectly well-With the other.
Several miller. unimportant eases vPere -tried,
-hardly ,7orth mentioning. •
The followingwere convicted of felony,
Lydia Nunnely and Ann llaslain, fot stealing
quantity of silk handkerchiefs, the, property of
Jeremiah Beach ;' Caroline Marshall, for stealing
apron,,, 8:c. the property of Sraa;t Layton ;
Ileary Chapman. for stealing two bearf.r hats,
the ,property of Thomas Hogg ; Daniel licardoq,
iod stealing a pair of half-boots, the property of
John Gibbons:; 1, illiani Janniugs, for stealing
goods- value 9s.' Gd: the property. of William
Davis; George Barber, for kealiiig a haiiker,
chief, the property of- Edward Macda\vall, jun.;
Marraret j(irk; and Eleanor Bryan, for steal-
iiq goods and Bank notes, valtie 2s. 9d:
the-property of Frederiek from, 'his.
Jierson ; Patrick St. .Ledger, .for stealing a
quantity of canvass Of I:trillium Neale, and William
Brice, for receiving the same, knowing it to have
been-. stolen ,Mary Lewis, for stealing a shift
and petticoat, the property Of Patrick crane; John
flopley, for-coining the. current .copper coin of
this realm called halfpence ; John-Hyde, for steal-
ing seven pounds weight of tobacco, the property
of hiS Majesty ; James Hankinson, for embezzling
divers tuns of money, the; property of his em-
plOyers, Messrs.-Hale acid Co.
‘Three Were Convicted of MisdemcTuors;
Wood, •fo-,:obtai;-,ing gc.y)ds ness-c,•7.
Poyndcr -and Hobson, by false pretences; 1M1:11.7.
Black, for perjury ; ,and Tho Mas Rusteli, for ob-
taining goods under false pretences. •

MIDDLESEX' SPECIAL SESSIONS,

,it.wl7'. J.

A 'Special Court was held this day, pursuant to
appointment, ~hen
Mr. GURNEY, on the, part of the parishioners
and inhabitants of the Liberty of Saffron-hill, ap-
pealed figainst the accounts of expenditure by
their Overseer.

The recital of the facts watt most er.traDrdinary,
and 'the cause of complaints altogether was most
singular ; stiffice it to say, that' the person,
in his capacity of overseer, had surcharged the
district with 247/. in a few months, ii•hih he this
day did'not satisfactorily, account for. -
The Court unanimously ordered that be should
refund the same, and that he should pay the costs
attending this application.