The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-25 00:00:00

FLANDERS NAIL,

(RECEIVED 'LAST 11C7,1:T.)

MHSELS, Drc. !D.—The Duke of IVellington
wiTconie and pass some days at Brussels, in the
kOurse.of next month. Hip Lbrdship will then go
to London, whence, after in ikiog a short stay, he
-will the head-quarters of the Allied
Army under his eominaud, at Catobray,
~Three
battalions of Brunswick cavalry arrived here this
morning, returning from Frunce. These troops.
are in nothing inferior to the cavalry of the great
rotir•ers, either in the size of the men, or, the

.beauty of the horses.
HAcuc, Dr.c: 17.—T0-day at noon the mar-
ria..e:e of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange
with her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Anna Panlow flit, was solemnly proclaimed at the
To‘vn Hall here. The proclamation was receiv-
ed by the public with the loudest acclamations.
The day before. yesterday. Prince Frederick took
his seat at the Council of State, at ‘..hose deli-
1, rations he will for the filthreatthd._ _ _

VJENN'A, DEC. B.—Leters from Brolly, is Gal-
liciJ, express apprehensions, probably ithfound-
ed, of the possibility of a breach befleen the
Porte and Russia, and speak of the 'considerable
bodies of troops which still continue to reinforce
tile Russian army on the Prtith under l3eunigsen ;
it extends to the rigti as far as beyond the Sereth,
anti on the left to the Bog-, butis'so witted that it
may be assembled in a very 'short 'Unit. Earlier
advices from Gailicia and from other places
on the lower Danube state', that the Turks
nee busy in raising I'm tification's in 'many places on
the right bank of the river. A numerous carps is
also stated to be already collected as well about
Adrianople as ::near Sophia, which is daily rein-
forced,- and Opon,the whole, is equal to the Rus-
sian force, which was estimated 'tour months ago'
at 1'20,000 men.
ITALY. —The Florence ••Ga:ctte declares the
accounts that lately appetwe-a in the Paris
viz. " flint Lord
.Win. l3cntinck, in the
name of the English Government, had demanded
the cession of a sea-port from t Courtof Rome;
that F.,l);lish troops were still at Viazeggio, Ci-
vita Vecchia, and in the Island of Capri
shun., thitt the Guveriouint hilt) the iu-

fenticn of beconving a Power in Italy," to Le
wholly groundless and absurd.
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N,PLt s,itiov. 28 —Last week we bad a dreadful
-storm here, during which a bomb vessel snit]: in
the middlC of the Irirlionr, The English brig the
Peg,ctsus, which arrived the evening before frbm
Smyrna, fired many signals of distress during the
night, and in the morning nobody could afFord
;lily assistance, the waves running triountains
high ; 'it was dreadful to see how the ropls
on board implored assistance. There were
thirty passengers, with women and six children ;
.among them was a brother of General Bianchi, a
French Major of horse. TbeFrench Consul at Tri-
pOlis,aia the mer Chant to whom the vessel was
consigned, offered in vain 2.,000 ducats to, save
but the people ; • at length 40 brace sailors of his
lklljesty's frigate Christiana ventured their lives,
and were fortunate enough after an hour's exer-,
Lion to bring the ship into the harbour.
VIENNA, DEc.:s.—lt is believed that whle the
Emperor is at Milan he will proceed to choose-a
-Viceroy. Report
.mentions his 1-ii2,l.ny!ss the
clnlnke Ferdinand, the brother of the Empress,
who is a uative.of

DUTCH MAIL,

[IiECRIV En LAST NIGHT.]

BRUSSELS, .DEC. 18.-,--The garrison of Cambray,
Vl•here.tke head-quarters of the Duke of Welling-
ton will. he lixed at the end of this -month, will
consist of eight or 10,000 men. The roads are
in such a bad condition that the English artitY will
remain some days longer upon the Oise ; a gt eat
part of the
.cavalry is nv.;•rdling to Calais to embark.
For t he rest all ottr greaeroads are constant ly cover-
ed with the returning troops; theqUantity of French
artillery ift:l powder waggonS which they bring
away with toem is prodigioupi, and even this alone
would aurborise the .conension that France has
been deprived of, the means- of mak* war for
maitY. years CO come. If. we -may, credit tl,e cur-
rent reports, a:chaoge has liteti made in the dis-
position of the Allied troops, so that not- the
Prussians; bit! the Russians, will be next the left
wing of the English army, and occupy Charle-
munt,• Rocroy, &c, The cltaiu of Aliit i troops
from Alsace to Conde w.;!1 be formed ill such
manner,- that at all times a very considerahle force
may he collected at curtain. points within forty-
eight hours.
thARLF.M, DEC. 21.—1 n the sitting of the Se.-
.cond .Chatuber Of the States7General, a messaae
frobt his Majesty was read,• stating, that to the
Convention concluded between the Emperor of
Austria and this kingdom, with which the States-
General are already acquainted, a secret article
,was added, watch, the ratifications being now ex-
changed, it is proper now to pahlish. This secret
article stjpulated that the debts of A ustria,.secured
.upon Belgium to the amount of .31,466,679
florins, are to lie to the charge. of the kingdom
of the :Netherlands, the interest to be paid
frirm the first: of November this year, by the
last power. A Message was also read from the
111aiesty, withthe.project of a law, according- to
the wish expressed by the States-General in their
. sittings at Brussels, to give a testimony of na-
tional gratitude to the -Prince of Orahge for his
canduet :n the battle at Onatre Bras. 'Fels pro:.
jeet of a Inc propose to purchase a Palace at
_brussels. f,r the Prince of Orange k the expellee
of the kingdom, and to lit it up in a suitable wan-
tier, and to present the Prince; tree of all bar;
then, with the Doma,nal Park of TeeVenren, and
the hunting scat belonging to it, situated in the
forest ofsoignies; ; this matterwas referred to the
Seetions.to he examined.

Muxs-rita, Dr.c. B.—A dreadful misfortune has
befallen the little town of :McLain, in this prin-
cipality ; a lire broke out. during a violent, storm,
and spreading with irresistible tory, reduced in a.
few hours sixty-two of the principal houses, and
many smaller dwellings_ to .►sties, -und deprived
about eighty families of their himies,.their effects,
and of all they had acquired by years of industry.
But little is sated; the loss, on a moderate cal-
culation, -is 6x-dollars.
Sr. PETEMBUlicrii Nov. 24.—However, much
may be talked of a war with Tvrkey, it seems to
be wholly without foundation ; . for the Emperor,
Wan ukase dated from Paris, Sept. 24, this year,
respecting the- recruiting- for this .year, in which
it is expressly said, " This is solely to supply the
place of the soldiers who have served their time,
end not on account of military preparations, which
thank God, are ant necessary." The number of
men to be raised is very small, being only one
front 500 souls.

BRUSSELS AND FRANKFORT PAPERS,

[RECEIVED THIS MOANING.]

BRUSSIAS. DEC. 20.—This morning a solemn
Deum was ehannted in the Church of St.
Gudnle, 'to return thanks to God far trotting grant-
ed a Peace which has been so ardently desired for
so many years.

. It is affirmed that several of tbe'Most remark-
able peisons comprehended in the Ordnance of his
Majesty the King of France of July 24, are cow-
ing to beck an asylum in the Netherlands, among
whom they talk ,of Marshal Soult and General
Vandamme.

OSTEND, DEC. 18.—The •last storm which we
felt.- here for 48 hours, and which hat done so
much damage on the coasts of England, where
above 120 vessels have been wrecked or damaged,
has, been particularly- fatal to a very respectable
mercantile house in thiS. town, T o
.of, its yes,
sets, one coming from the East Indies with a rich
cargo, the other going from Ostend to Lisbon,
accidentally met at sea, and remained at anchor
together for some time, waiting' till the storm
should be over, But they were soon parted by
the fury of the winds; and, by a strange fatality,
these.,two vessels perished in of vach