The Sun.
London, England, 1815-10-13 00:00:00

.401"(

CA.->Titnr,Ada; on a subjcct to -Mild, un-
common interest haS been attached, namely be
share the Biitish Commander anit his Troops have
kattin cpnipellin the French i(;• make restitution of
ieOrks of ai't th'eS7 bad jiltindereli fr6in the ter-
ritories of our Ally the Jiiit of :hi) Neiherlalids.

The substance of ,this Letter we have already
tiCciiiinely laid befOre oaf, aeaders, but it is,
its entire form, %yell worth the deepest ,regard`, as
a plain, masculine, and noble illustration of some
•of ..the greatest truths which are connected Witli
rrenert feelings and the politics of Etti'dl4.
ft appears rhai tri'e utmost delicacy wati
ed in this tramiaeiitin, and the utmost care taken
not to' give offence to' the King of FR ATiCE
anti it was only after. a prolonged shuffle be-
tween TALLEYRAND• and DENON,- , with
the mu-minions assent of the Allied. Monarchs;
the stolen property was seized for its lawful
owners. The Prtissiarr troops being on guard,.
Englishmen had only the honour of being la-
bouters on this occasion. This' accounts ki' the
abuse uhich the t, ltronicic has lavished on these
leho. removed. the -Pictures, They did it like
Sheriff's Officers," and not with tire delicacy. of
Eflttursiasts , and Lovers," as the French. did !
example„ perh'Aps, in Spain, where _these
Lover Thievec, tmitur King JoSEPIi, CO the finest
Pictures out of their frames but, be sure, they
were in haste !

The wain and conclusive argument adduced by
the Duke of Wer.I.INGToN is, that having brought
forward a claim for the conservation of these

spoils in the Convelitioit for the sorrendett of
Paris, which claim was rejected, the Freoch.atootr

on Worse vomit! in this respect than Oil the for-
mer Treaty of Paris, 1614, when the 'water was
passed sub silentio:

hit the c:anclusion of his Grace'3 Letter is a!-
together a waster-piece a' reasoning. Here be.
displays the general and stronger data on which
-the Allies- Lave proeiciled in taking away the-lood
on which national arrogance fed,' and in 'readink
a moral lesson to France, which; Ave trust, be
as lasting al it is excellent.

An article in the Brussels, Pit-pees of the 9-tlr has
set all- the friends of Revolution in Spain agog,
by stating that the Courpte.de AvisnAL bad been
prevented front marching his t. e hole force into-Gal,
Bela against PORLIER, by the appearance of
at the head of another insurreetion Nai:amt,
where, and in the adjoining province of Bis-
cay, theCompte. was stationed-. it may be true
'that DZiN,a has started in this' finartert tuld,- if
he has. the:l-cfrenion 'must be- 'l.w-ire formidable
than that of PORLIER ;• for it mast be-formdrd•on
the disposition of the, Army Just retnrned from
France'. Unless this Army was disaffected, MINA
would not be so nrad (to are a Sp7tnisb•proVerb)
as to seize tire btrll by the horns, and attack the
Government on the point where it was strongest.
But at all events, if we may credit the intelli-
gence from Madrid of the 26th and-2Stil, this diver-
sion ivas to'a late ; for it is thence repeated that
PotaLtEa's Plan; have entirely failed.
,We ought not to dismiss this notice without
remarking, that there is a great degret of impro-
bability 'attached to new.; from Spain via Brus-
sels, which is augmented When it relakes a fact
so unlikely as • that tire troops ordered to march'
against PORLIER in (allicia were those employed
in Navarre at the other extremity of tttpairt, and
at least 350 or 400 miles front the scene of action.
We have hitherto forborne to enter into the
affairs of Spin, because we did not conceive that
we were furnished with proper information on a
Arb:teet of so meld' interest and importance, not
only to that country, but to all Europe ; but we
arenotif assured, upon such authority as we never
found erroneous; that almost the whole of the
late accounts front the Peninsula which haveJap-
peared in the foreign journals have misrepresented
its real condition. We are assured that FEtutt-
NAND, instead of being in any danger of a general
insurrection, is absolutely adored by the great mass
of the people ; and, what is more extraordinary, he
is acting not only according to the advice of the
chief men in the country, but conformably to
the solicitations of the late Cortes. PORLIER,
however patriotic his intentions Might be, is de-
scribed as a weak enthusiast, and half a mad
It has been ascertained, that the tuisre,
presentations of thel state of affairs in Spain
have not been written by Spaniards except;
perhaps, by a very few degenerate miscreants,
but have been circulated through the fo-
reign Journals by Frenchmen, :and, we are
sorry to add; by a few, renegade Englishmen.L—
Pont.rta was tuerely.sttpp.orted by a faction, and
it is,probable that he- and the rest have by
titne, paid %vitli their lives for their rashness and
folly. FEREIItiA'ND is acting according-tit the teui_ _
per, the habits, and the prejudices of his Subjects,
who can drily be taught Co think bettei and have

trian.

tticiinatioiLti eharneter ifoprcr:el by Cone and titre-
;patina diffusion of more enlightaned principles.

, have re.e-ei'ved ilt) Fl meth I).apera.
the deb-ices ill ike prokiaibil "de-
_
!eyed them. ,
..1

In our la-st page will lie found some deeeiletti
oly4rratiOni the important subject of l'uxa-
tion, wol hiell being founded the data of facts,-
supported by minute auchteettrateealtdation3, we
5:1; to recommend' to the' public attention. Ai
this subject is so volimninous" as to stretch to con-
siderable. length,. %ve shall continue if in our future
Nutaiers.

M. Eil,rl-IfNSTONE, a high officet of the Com-
,pany's at Canton, and Sir GEORGE STAUNTON','
%Om has already been at Pekin, go with Lord
AMHERST Oil his embassy to China. With :Sir
GEORGE STAUNTON'S kilOWledge of the
and customs of the people, and of their singular
language, Lord NIEITERST will have superior at
vantages to those which the hrte Lord MAtAturNET
pos,,essed.
His Royal liighniess the PRINCE REGENT, it' is
expected, will leave Hampton Cowl to-tbry far
Brighton.
His Reryal 1140111e:is the Paltcc-E REGENT and
suite, we .are informed, are ex•pected- to pay a
visit to the Earl and Countess of CRAVEN, On the
20th inst. at Cotuhe Abbey, near Coventry ;
from whence they will proceed to the seat of the
'Marquis of At4Gt..esEA, at Beandesert,. in Sid-
foidshire, where they will rennin some days. '
The Duke of OttLEANs is enpected this day to
arrive from Paris.
The' Duke of York. rode to town, yesterday
morning, from Oatlatids; and was• at his oflic-e.
all early hour.
The Princess Sompt is, so- far recovetzed,:as to
take":the air in her one-horse chair, and: some-
times on horseback, daring the present weather."
Alr. CL.01,,, the Messenger, left town 'last
night for Paris, With dispatches for the Dukeof
WELL' scfro

ARCHDUKeS
. .
THE AUSTRIAN A —Five months is-
the period for which the mansion of the Duke of
ST. A2),,,AN'S, in StratfOrd-place, is taken fur the
aecnatmodation of the Austrian Archdukes. it i 3
fitted up in the roost magnificent st yLe,. and a
nOriber of servants in every elpacity have. b'eeu
engaged as i temporary establishment for their
Royal Highnesses.. Three, of the Putsc? Re-
GEN'T'S- carriages, with suitable attendants. have
been ordered to conduct the disting,nished Visitors
and sidtes to London 5, two of thetn will lektve
town for Dover to-day, awl the third to-morrow
morning, with the Secretary to. the late Austrlv
Ambassador. The Archduke Jour: certain y
expected in town On TneSday next.
It is'thought, that Al. LAINE will be erected

President of the. New Chamber of Propcir Depu-
ties. Out of the whole. Chmtiher of Representa-
tives, there are, it is' Said, butt to 13,,,,,iaparlisrS
gut! 9 JileOhi4ls-; the Feist are firmly <utci honour-
ably for the King atichfor a consti-tution, t.,,noded
on bases truly national. 'Of this edifice the char-
ter is geueraliy allowed to be the corner-slime.
Leto:ft sfrom theFreneirports received yes; erday,
state, that the emigration is greater from rranee
than was ever known. 'Every vessel that quits
' a French putt direct for America, is loaded with
artizans, mantifacturers, and people of property,
The sill:-weavers cfnitting their native. eowntry
are said to,ire mute M1111(11)113 any other de,
scription of peopte. _
It is stated, that when tbe" Brit kit Commissary
went to the Royal Library at Pat-is, to claim cer,
tarn books as belonging to other nations, the In-
Spector informed hiM, that the works 'conhl only'
be permitted to be taken by force k mid for that
purpose, it was necessary he should' coul.e afteud-
ed with int escort of sobliers. The ContmissWrY
enquired. if 20.-weite the answer was-,
100 would nut do, as there were numbers 14 stu-
dents at hand who might not choose to be pssive
whilst the books were removing, The Commis-.
sary upon this went away, bur soon returned with
300 attendants, and the books were then taken
passcnion of,

It will be fecollected that the Duke of All..-
GOULEME, after making the MO SE heroic efforts
Maintain the Royal cause in the Southern Pro-
vinces of France, • being at length overwhelm-
ed by a very superior forte of the enemy, was
compelled to leave France, and withdraw into
Spain. He still, however., continued upon t!;e-
frontier, for the purpose of encouraging the spi-
rit; which was known to prevail itt the Southern
Provinces itt favour of the I-louse of BoulißoN.
Inturtherance of this objects Royal flightless
applied for pecuniary assistance front England,
which was granted. He was- empoweged to draw
upon the Treasury lot thirty thousand pontids, and,
in order to remove any difficulties he might expe-
rience in raising money, lie was likewiselurnish-
ed oith letters of credit upon connnercial houses
at Barcelona, at Toulouse,- and at Marseilles.—
The manner of employing this money, when once
placed in his hands, was necessarily left, in a
great measure, to his Royal Highness's discre-
tion but. he Considered it as- a sacred deposit en-
trusted to 1641.4 the British Government-, to be
applied solely to the objects of the war. The fa-
vourable turn, therefore, which affairs took, after
the ebtrance of the Allies into Paris, having ren-
dered any military effort in the Southern Pro-
vinces unnecessary, the Duke of ANGOULEME,
after having had in his possession, for a period of
three months, the order upon the Treasury, and
the letters of credit with which he had been fur-. 1
nished, returned them to an! Britin Govern,
ment, stating, that he had fortunately not had op-.
easion to make.use of them.

Letters brought by the Ann, just arrived from
Bombay, mention that accounts had reached that
Presidency from Calcutta, stating that the Conti-
ieSs ut LounbN and children were to embark in
the first fleet proceeding front Bengal for Europe.
We are sorry to learn that -het• Ladyship's return
is occasioned by her declining state of health, and
the serious apprehensions entertained of the chil-
dren over-growing their strevg,h, if suffered to:
prolong their stay-in India.

tll-'
'• • -
TrIE Dt7x.r: OF' -- L;
TO LORI) C.ISTL.EILE-igg;

;I;

SZPYEMBIVI vat iSi~:
L0rt.14,--A- gat deal hat latelybee-,s'ed
th the easiu-es lotve been 6b"gh.
4(/'--a(l°Pt, in oi'dei. oloain for the 1t156. of
to;
NeTifERANDa h 1. i; "4'intings and other illings°
L I.
of the Museum, and a; these deports AulY re°c'.
the eats-of the EGENT, c0111931111i(41:
to you the following acenn'l-e• a!Tairf
for Royal liightiess,:i e
•
('Sof'
" A .short thnef at rite
the tic
reigns at Paris, the INBa:stcr a tile. Fifi of
u:
Netherlands demanded the PictitieS, t(Sze•
50'
longing to his Sovereign,- as did the Minister. j,
the other Sovereigns, and as I was iii.f°lllltel;
eould not obtain a satisfactory
allSWer /For°
:French Government. After several' ecurverjaLi°l3l„,
L°rt
with me Upon the subject, he sent to your t
shift an official note, which WAS laid ber(ge
Ministers of the Allied Powers assembled at
conference, upon which the bfisiness seve,2_,
.times taken into, consideration, (U'd.`r "1'
tg'"
cover- a means of doing justice to the
(f the objects- of Art in the Museum) ‘.vitll9

hurting the lei:lll3gs of the King of Fiance', fr
" Meantiniethe Prussians had obt'iirw(.;
his Majesty, not only all the picture 3 b+
,eel ttr
Prussia proper, but alio those Istel°lls(die
the Prussian territory an the left batik 4t
Rhine, aid all thOse that were the prorrq °
Prussian Majesty; the affair now beczrine
ury
and your Lordship wrote a note of the

which the mate; was- ftJ4y treated' -ettle'
" Minister of the g.,ing of the S

Itlilvting not yet received a.nY satisfactory o')s4cc,
c I.: the French Government, applieg tc' I"' c
out:nand-6r in Chief of the Army of th: l':•ing o
the. Netherlands, and asked whether I bal °");
objection to emphqing his Maj.t4ty's troor t°Ni °
alit Fm'sesnion, of what was indubitably l'il .; 'll
Jesty's property. ' I raid this tines ion alin bc'')l
I spoke in cot:signet:cc
the Ministers of the Allied Monarchs; and as no
~, tato=
..the necessary steps
to obtain wot icSS IliS rfila
(31YiCetirin Was found, 1 thought it my 'll9 l'" -_.
rand' upon the
subject, communicated iohiat wha:l
11-a'd passed at the conference, -and the rets°ll3.
char etittel,l
.lad for thinking that the li.i.t'l4 oil:
lauds had 8„d equesbcv
a right to pail:tit:o,
him to lay the matter before the lii-iog;al'd:" di.a.
. hi 't -Mojesty to do me the f,, our to detertwaL:
tios
objcCt ( t r
""nncr in wisich 1.-mie,la obtain, ti,e
:iii"g of the NetherlanOsi %vithoot in oily 111,19a`
offending his' Majtaty. ,novcr
with. rrince Tager
" Prince Tallo,raliti prontiied niCllL'in •e'
C
orders
by the next . ecenin" ; hilt ;15. 1 (C-"
110.1r:111 :f
cive it, I repaired to him- in da ni4lll' .-' vt
s'eeontl confcrence with him, in .vitich lie; .3111,
me. to understand that the. Kinsg ovoid hive t;
Denon,
thought proper, and
,negotiate with gr,
the ,Director of the Musetttn.
upon th-e soitiect : that I might do as
. " 111 the mornin,r, I :;eitt,my Aide-de-Carl:
Lieut,Colonel Freemantle, to Mr. Do -
wn,. %%Il i-
told hint that he had no orders to vire-upon') Pa°
Ings out of the Gallery, and that- he slsoultl' stiffer
none to be taken away but by force. I i)I. occ
" I then sent Colonel, Free:ollode to
lfalkYrand, to acipn)int hint with this otWverf
and to inform him,. that the troops %will!' gk:
the next morning; at twelve oCloeh, t° "IA
posscsiim* Of the paintings toe;ongity, to t :
King of the Netherlands, and to declare, t".
if any thing unpleasant slionla :vise
tiTeas.ttre, the King's Mitristers, and not I, sereis,...
ail"vertrhle for it : Colonel Fret:marl& 111:c
wise informed Mr. Delon of the measure t i
from O

%vas to be taken. .
, cf anY
~ ,,, ,
It %.Is, however, not necessary to se"
troops, because-a Prussian Guard constanty' ()c
copied the Gallery, and the piettirel were °ken"
away without-any assibtance being required 111)P?
any of the troovs tinder my command, eellt
few who assisted as labo.urersin taking d'lrl/*°"
•

packing up. il
ee ,t e
" It has been ailedgcd, that by baying b" the
instrut»eut of carrying away from the G
i ager,' t".
11$11
pictures of the icingbeen. guilty of a breach of a Treaty whic!oi 11'1
myself wade; and kul there is no mentiOn Wall :
of the Netherlands, 4
!?5,111 t
►
of the iVusetun in the Treittv of tire
'Alarch,"and it seems acts. the Treaty spoken of
i', eh{:; Military ConventiOn of Paris", itis necas.-
nary to show how Can
this Convention is ed
•

::Walt the Aluseutn. .
I do not want `to prove that the Allies IvCre,
artntes.cutered Paris undee a Military
at wawith f
r jrance--:-there is no doubt that their
.
concluded. ‘vith an Officer of the Government: the
Prefect, of the Department of the Seine, Bndi soil
O. tii. cc!. of the Army, who represented both au" :
III"' at that moment present at Paris, .tritl °d
I)°,werell by these Authorities CO negociale so
co?ielinde for then', P
1 I "rllll article of the Convention- which is. a.r,
'-'( ;;;tfl 'to- have be;:ii hrO:ien is the I I t!), which rg
Convention