The Sun.
London, England, 1805-12-21 00:00:00

MAILS.
Alla/ Dul;lin, a Water.(oid. Gagenb.ugh,
Lisbon, i Waterford.

THE SUN.

301.10.1 QtM DIVERS r4Littrst AUDZ4T ?

L ND 0 AT,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1805.

No farther intelligence has 'reached us from the
Continent. A Paper of this morning is Still inclined
to give some credit to the story from Hamburgh of
an Armistice. cannot, however, discover the
least ground of probability upon which it can rest.
The Letter containing the statement purports to have
been sent from Vienna on the 6th. They could
scarcely have had any intelligence from the Armies
,at Vienna later than the 4th, the day when the Allies
obtained a decisive vi&ory, and when therefore they
would be little inclined to agree to such an Armistice.
But independent of this circumstance, there is not
the.slightest otliciality about the communication at
its outset. It does not appear who it came from at
the Head-quarters of the French Army (from whence
it must have originated), or from whom it came at
Vienna. M. LAFORE; at Berlin, receives an Ex-
tra& of a Letter, and, for any thing that appears to
the contrary, an anonymous Letter, from Vienna', and
sends it off by an Estafette to. M. BOVRIENNi at
Hamburg!). This is the only official communica-
tion that appears. Is it to be supposed for,a mo-
ment if such an Armistice had been agreed to,
that BONAPARTE would not have caused it imme-
diately to be sent, by the most diredt route, from
the Head-quarters of the French Army to Berlin,
to. Hamburgh, and to other places where he would
of course wish it to be known, with all possible
speed, instead of Sending it by a circuitous route to
Vienna, thereby losing at least three days in point
of time ? Is it to be imagined, that if the fa6t of
such an Armistice had been known at Vienna, it
would not have been communicated with some of-
ficial' stamp attached to it,
.to 'the French Mini-
ster at Berlin, instead of being sent thither with-
out any name or authority ? If such a circumstance
had been known at Vienna, would not. Count
HAuowurz have communicated it, in the most.expe—
ditious manner, and by • the most dire& route, to the
Court of Berlin, a fa& which, in its result, must ne-
cessarily derange all the plans of the. Prussian Cabi-
net ?

Flaying attentively weighed all these considers
Lions, the story of the Armistice appears td us'to be
stripped of every feature of probability, whilst it is
telligence previonsly received. It is very possi-
ble that the communication may have been made
with
.the same view that the grossest falsehoods
have been for .some time past inserted in tilt MO-
niteur, and other Parisian Journals, for the pur-
pose of deception. No Man knows better the va-
lue of these falsehoods thaA BONAPARTE. He knows,
that during thereigns of his revolutionary Predeces-
sors, as well as his own, much has been eifeded upon
the Continent by the falsehoods which haveissued from

the French Press, and. which have.obtained a widely
extended circulation; and that more ti'rench vi6tories

have been gained by fraud and treachery, by false-
hood and deceit, than by dint of arms. We trust,
hbweyer, that he will now feel the impotence of

every weapon of attack which has been hitherto suc-

cessful- in his hands, and that his blood-stained
laurels, which have already withered at the touch of

the Russian Eagle, will finally be torn from his brow.

The talents and the heroism displayed by the Ern-

peror ALEXANDER must necessarily place him at the
head of the Coalition, and with such a Chief, we
may confidently preclid a successful issue to the most