The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

lIANovER, JULY. 6.—The physicians have very ear-
nestly ordered the King to go to Ems, for the benefit of
the waters, and his Majesty, as we .hear, will very
shortly follow their advice, and probably not go first to
with expected
his summer residence . The King is said to be still very
t,Nnrasuch hurt by the death of the Queen, more so than
Crown Princr,itneo,
from his firm and manly character, not-
withstanding the reciprocal affection that was here seen
der mother and juditils
to exist botwe
eglaetstesrlavlelya-rregrettd, and.algt
him and his august consort. The
deeplytrie
h
ra at the loss -
Majesty's death is
J almost all persons of the better
mourning,HANOVER, JULY 7.___Th
behold the much afflict
' e funeral of the late Queen
took place ; it was
at very affecting sight, to
uncovered, follow the
one
eleaorr on foot. Next came the
afflicted, aged monarch, with his head
Crown Prince with
of his sisters (the Duchess of
Dessau and the Princess
Then liudelstadt), on each arm.
followed the other
sons of the Queen, Prince
Frederick of Russia and the Pr
coffin was
was drawn
Crown -as verryesrtiichhglyo'
hora-
rineces Alexander and
Bernhard of Solms Braunfels.
nbyameeignhtetd,balancdkonhorsiteNsv.asTtlhiee Royal
Palace to the
locrhfoofs
wreath of white roses. The way from thl).wahl
Chapel was covered with black cloth, on young
girls had scattered flowers. A vast number
specta-
tors filled the streets and the houses up to the
BERLIN, JULY s.—The population of the kino•dom. of
Prussia at the end of 1840, was 14,907,091 ;at the end
of 1837 it was 14,098;125, the increase is 808,966.
Haniburgh Papers, July 9.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Jrav 9.*
Bills. Honey
Austrian 5 per Cents. ........... 0000000 ••••••••••• 00000 10lN ....
Rank Shares 1656
U
Anglo-Russian Loan lO, IDs
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Curtificate 102% 10114
Inscription, Ist Se' os lO2 101 x,
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series ........................... ..... ••• 914
91i:
Ditto in Certificates ..... .. ........... " ..a
....a . ....
664,
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) *A
Dutch actual Debt, -04 pe, Cent SO% 53%
Ditto 5 per Cent
145 -
....
Polish Bonds
' )5534, "'New ticket
75
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Ceti* 7514 4
N f wegian Loan, 1531, 4 per 0W.... ll f..) 1,02
Spanish, New 5 per Cents ... 16%
EXCHANGE) ON LONDON.

HAMBURG, J►,LY 7.—Two months, 13 s►.f
II'ETERSBURGII, JUNE 29.—Two months, 38% pence.
RIGA. JULY 3. —Three Months, 39N.
tsi..KraN; Jt.;IN C.—Three months, ii. 19,
BELGIAN I! UNDS—Bauessts, Juts 10.
Actual Debt,2% per Cent. ..... ..... 52%
Itothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent................... lOU%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.......... 92
----- 3 per Cent ..... "..

Thirty.seven.

(17:410' ICO9.
Loan of City, 1832. 4 per Cent. S2
Society of Commerce, 4h, per Cent tl4
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7431
NationalSeciety.
Exchange on Londoe (shot t)
—Brussels Papers, July 10.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Jtir_ir 3
Five per CORts. Bletalliques
Foes per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 00000000000
Three per Cents.
Rank :Maros •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••..1111111, 1520
Airrzneisc Zeitung, July 7,

THE BLACK EAGLE OF PRUSSIA
ITS DESCENT TO GENERAL BOYER.

PARIS, JULY .10,—The total dearth of anything poli-
tical, alaiost brings down upon a Parisian correspondent
that somnolency which at present seems to oppress
France herself. However, for lack of more substantial
matter, I have strung together a few antiquarian remi-
niscences upon the Order of the Black Eagle, with which
General Boyer was a few days since invested. As Na-
poleon himself was the first bearer of this badge, and
anything connected with this great man appeals strongly
to all men's hearts, I flatter myself that it will have
interest.
The venerable gossips of Lampsacus and Mitylene
used to relate it as a most miraculous sort of accident
when talking to the little Greeks they nursed in their
laps, how that an eagle, sporting in the heights of the
air, dropt on the bald sconce of Aschylus a sizeable
stone, which concussed the Poet's brain, and led to the
extinguishment of his life. But it has come to pass in
these later days that the case is just reversed ; for it is
not the eagle who now adopts the stone, but the stone
that adopts the eagle ; or, to express ourselves unam-
biguously, the art of heraldry has put the eagle in a new
position, and by graving this " lord of the skies" upon
its arms and blazonments, has drawn him from
his airy realms, and indelibly fixed him in a
gilded surcoat. The Romans were the first who began
.to practise this heraldry. The fine predisposition of
their minds led them to admire beyond expression this
noble bird, who "rode royally on wings of winds,"—whose
name of Aquila, the rapid bird, gave name to Aquilo,
the swiftest of winds,—and whose flight shot up past Athos
and Mons Quirinal. They, being no unexpert symbol-
makers, ordained that it should stand in the list of those
things which were typical of bravery and virtue, and
which, when it afterwards became placed on the top of
the flag-bearer's pike, was looked upon as an omen that
infallibly marshalled the way to conquest. Wolves,
boars, and leopards, ind•ed, were long, by the de-
scendants of Romulus, borne as heraldic ensigns,
but Otitis Marius, the hero of Carthage, put totally
this troop of animals to the rout, and in his con-
sulate made a decree that. the eagle should alone be
the badge of the empire. It has ever been the badge of
courage. Catiline, bad as lie was, was nevertLeless
bold, and he was known superstitiously to attribute half
his valour to the superintendence over him of his Silver
Eagle, which he kept in his room, and regarded as a
tutelary divinity.
The silver-winged eagle was long a favourite. Its
blanched plume was the fairest of ornaments, and in
comparatively modern days a King of olden Poland,
Vladislaus by name, thought fit to institute in the thir-
teenth century the Polish order of the White Eagle,
which became an honour to knighthood. The occasion
of its making was a merry marriage-time, when the
bridals of his son, young Casimir, were about to shed
gladness through the realm.
The writer of the " Song of Songs," has a very quaint
simile in his episode, wherein he likens the stomach of
the beloyed to " a heap of wheat set -about with lilies,"
and this new Polish order was assuredly not less curious.
For where, think you, that they wore the badge of their
order ? Not in a sash across the breast like a cordon
Nen, or ribbon of, any other order, but, says erudite
Selden' " The Knights of this order were distinguished
by a gold chain which they wore on the stomach, and to
which was suspended a silver eagle crowned." Pity that
this order did not exist in the days of the son of Tydeus,
whoni the quick-witted satirist described as a moving
" magno stomacho."

But Poland is lest among the kingdoms now, and the
wings .of her Eagle which glistered with silver, are
clipped and shorn, and she amid potsherds and the dust.
Prussia took part in the divisions of her spoil, and like a
proud insulter, wears, in scornful glory, the identical
trophies which once adorned the former. Prussia seems
tacitly to have confesSed that the soft white plumery of the
Polish bird was but ill fitted for so dark a brow as her own,
and therefore, with characteristic good judgment, adopted
the eagle of her fallen sister, not white and stainless,
but black and blood-dyed, as it had been rendered by her
own trenchant sword. Poland ! look to that Black
Eagle which Prussia carries on her arms,. her chariots,
and her court-gear, and acknowledge it as the mark of
your own subjection, and the badge of oppressing Powers.
Thus instituted, the order of the Black Eagle had for
ip ensign a gold cross of eight points, enamelled blue ;
fhe ciphers-letters F. R stand in its centre, and in the
four angles is the Eagle of Prussia enamelled black.
The manner of wearing this cross on ordinary days is
different from that used on collar-days, as it then con-
sists of a broad orange-coloured ribbon, which is passed
scarf-wise from the left-shoulder to the under-part of the
right arm. The Knights also have embroidered on the
left breast of their coats and upper garments, a star of
silver, shaped like that of the ensign of the order, on the
centre whereof is an eagle, displayed black, holding in
his dexter-claw a chaplet of laurel, and in the other a
thunderbolt, with this motto round it—" Scum Cuique."
How noble are the knights of this Order, may be
gathered from the fact that in its princely numbers
it reckoned foremost the Emperor Napoleon. Though
enmity, deadly at last, broke out against him from the
King of Prussia, yet there had been days when they had
joined in feastings together, and delighted to bestow on
each other reciprocal favours. Among these is to be
numbered the Black Eagle. Prussia bestowed this upon
him a 3 the costliest token of its favour, and for many a
day, at the Court of Eylau, Napoleon wore it on his
front. Bat clouds, at a later date, gathered round Fon-
tainebleau, and Prussia, remembering her old smarts, no
longer flapped, with a loving wing, the cheek of
Napoleon, but made ready her talons for the
pounce. Waterloo was fought, and the " Tete d'armee
with his legions vanquished ; but, strange to relate, the
Prussian eagle, which that day had been the actual cause
of his. discomfiture, was not flying upon the plain on the
wings of Blucher's columns, but was nestling beside him
in his own carriage as lie fled by night, so that the Black
Eagle was found in that vehicle after he had deserted it.
When the Prussians came up they found it, and this
treasure was again restored to the hands of its first be-
stower.

This honourable badge remained for some time ,empty
and unoccupied in the hands of the King of Prussia, to
whom it had thus reverted. Nevertheless, Prussia had
her eye upon the warriors that were working in her
war-fields, and a General was soon found who was
deemed worthy to wear anew the honours of Napoleon.
General Gneisenau was gradually rising in repute ; he
was the best military man of the time. He bore part in
the columns of Blucher, and his advice at the battles of
Brienne, Laon, and Vauchamp, in 1814, was creditable
and productive of great good. The victory of Waterloo
added greatly to his laurels. Shortly after he was pro-
moted to the rank of Field-Marshal. Still the Black
Eagle remained unused. The sun of Napoleon
sank behind the mountains of St. Helena. Prus-
sia was now at peace, and began to look around her
upon those whose past exploits rendered them worthy of
notice. The sagacious eye of the King soon singled out
Gneisenau, and at the same time that he created him a
Count of the Kingdom, brought out of its temporary
seclusion the famous Eagle, and invested Gneisenau with
its sable honours.

Gneisenau, thus worthily decorated, rose higher in
his master's esteem, and as we all know was made this
Prince's Minister of State, and he assisted at the negor
tiations in Paris in 1815. He afterwards commanded the
troops on the Rhine. 11l health subsequently attacked
him, and the second bearer of the Black Eagle died.
Prussia again retook its Eagle, and again this sterling
prize was unapplied for a time. But a few days since,
the worth of General Boyer brought that
veteran soldier before Prussia's eyes, and
there was found among the gathering of
officers and marshals none fitter than he to wear
this ornament of heroes. Boyer began his life in the
army, and; in the 9th regiment of Dragoons, made all
the campaigns of Italy. All his grades were obtained
on the field of battle. Under Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse,
in 1802, he went to Martinico, and took part in the la-
bours, and executed, often in the most brilliant manner,
the perilous orders of his commanding chief. In 1805,
he was charged to retake Fort Diamond from the Eng-
lish, the most important of the Antilles—a rock made
tenfold more formidable by art, and called by the British
the Gibraltar of the Antilles. Boyer, after three attacks,
took it; and even the English journals spoke out in
commendation of his bra%'ery. He showed himself
among the fiercest in retarding the marches of the
allied army in 1814. After Waterloo he was sentenced
to death, which was commuted to eight years' imprison-
ment. Mercy interfered for the gallant officer's sake,
and after three years' confinement he was again received
into the army with a complete restoral of his honours,
and permitted to be classed among the cavalry-colonels
on half-pay. What set-vices he has rendered Prussia
are well known.

The Black Eagle has therefore, for the third time,.
again alighted on worthy shoulders. Boyer, since his
investiture, wears it with due dignity. On collar-days
he looks remarkably well, the ensign being then worn
pendant to a rich collar of gold, composed of round flat
spheres of the same precious metal, each enamelled with
four cyphers of the letters F. R. The centre of the piece
is set with a large diamond, and over each cypher is a regal
crown, all richly chased, intermixed with eagles displayed,
enamelled black alternately, and holding in their claws
thunderbolts of gold. May he wear it long.
The above forms a scrap of modern antiquarianism,
if such a negation of terms may be allowed. To.trace
the descent of these little gewgaws and playthings of
royalty is amusing, if indeed they furnish not other
sources of profit. On this latter score we esteem that
writer much, who, when he set about to tell us of the
second pearl of Cleopatra that Plancus saved, dropt not
his pen at the close of the circumstance, but traced the
identical gem through its subsequent destinies, till be
found it consecrated in a temple to Venus, after . which
finding he found it no more. The history of the Black
Eagle we have likewise preserved in tracing down to the
present day, leaving later antiquarians to follow it
through the nineteenth and consecutive centuries. What
fatality may await it we are not wise enough to say, but
if, from the unforeseen accidents of time or caprice, the
Order itself become annihilate or extinct, this relic of the
order, which has gilded the front of Napoleon, shall re-
main as a record of that Order's existence in the arsenals
of the Schloss; or the archives of Potsdam.

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