The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-18 00:00:00

LAUSANNE, Oct. 7.

YESTERDAY morning at eight o'clock, the flew
Suspension of Arms was concluded., This morning
General VON-DER-WEIDT returned to ifontpre-
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where the Ratifications Weie.
The following is a copy of it

CONVENTION OF ,A RMISTICE
Concluded beteerthelGeiioral of B rigadeNioN-O WF. z
invested 'With powers for that 'purlioie by thc.

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Government. and Colonel HER r:ScHwArint authorize,
to that euitft by Baron BACHuAKN, Genefal in Chi-act.
the Troof4''of the Confederated Si iss.
I._ There 'Shall be an Armistice hetWeen the lielvetic
Troops and the Confederated Swiss Troops; ,and if Asostili,
ties should re-commence, they 'shall not take place till
twenty-four liolirs after the return of General RA? P to Lao-

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PARIS, OCT. 141

ACTS OF GOVERNMENT.
St. CA:4 OFtvber 4.

The Consuls of tly! Republic, on the report of
the Minister of the Colonies and the Marine, the
Council of State being present, decree,

I. That all contraventions of the Laws and
Regulations respeitting Foreign Commerce, &C. in
the Coioniei, shall be proceeded upon, and judged,
in form as it)lH‘xs:

ll..the Proceedings and Judgment in the first
shill ;;ppertam to the ordinary Tribunals,
:with a power of Appeal, in all cases, to a Special
Commission, which shall ultimately decide. The
itCrniations. shall be made summarily, and in the
Way
.of simple memorials. _
111. In the Diitria of each Captain-General,
the Commision shall consist of the Captain.Gtneral,
the Colonial Prefect, the Commissar.), of Justice, or
the Grand Judge, who shall reciprocally ad for
each other in case of the inability of either to at.
tend. Iu other places, the Commission to be corn.
of three Members of the Tribunal of Appeat,
selected for each particular case, by the Captain.
Getral.

• With resp-a to the Island of Tobago, the Com.
mission of Appeal shall consist of the Captain.
G "era', the Colonial -Prefect, the first Officer of
-f
Ju'ice, or of three Members of the Court of Ad.
Pnir,,lty, at the Option of the Captain-General.
IV; In case of a difference of opinion, that of
the President shall preponderate.
V. The Inspettor of the Marine, or the person
executing the function: of that Officer, shall, in vir.
tue of his situation, officiate as Public Agent in the
said CottpniBsion of Appeal.
The funetions of Grefer shall be performed by
a Secretary specially appointed by the Captain.
General.

VI. Notwithstanding the above) the ancient
Laws shall be administred in every thing not affed-
cd by the foregoing Regulations.
VII- Tile Minister of the Marine and the Co-
lonies is tharged with the execution of the present
Decree, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of
tlit Laws.

The First Consul, BONAPARTE.
By o rder,
H. B. MARET, Secretary. of State.

ST. DOMINGO.
in the name of the French Government.
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Head-quarters at the Cape, July tz, 18oz.
The Captain-General, Commander in Chief, de.
crees) -

1.-Thit the Catholic Religion, Roman, and Apos-
ttolical, is the sole Religion of which the Public
-Worship shall be authorised in St. Domingo.
11. Two Ecclesiastics, appointed by the General
in Chief, shall execute the fundions of Aptsto-
Leal Vicars, these ace charged to present to the
General in Chief proper candidates for the offices of
.Cure and Vicar, and they are to suggest such re-
gulations as they shall deem proper for the object
in view.

111. There shall be one Core in the Communes
of the chief places in each quarter ; the other Com.
tunes shall be supplied with Vicars.
IV. Sunday shall henceforth be the day of rest
to all the public functionaries, and to the Citizens
at large neverdidess, she dates of public and
Private ads shall continue to be expressed con-
formably to the Republican Calendar, as far as re-
aped,. the days and names of the months ; the names
of the days shall be those of the ancient Calendar.
V. Tne present Regulation is but provisional.
b VI. These presents are addressed to the Colonial
"ettO, in order to their publication and execution.
They shall also be inserted in the Ofcial Gazette.
The Captain.Gencral, and Commander in Chief,
LECLERC.

A 51,0 P A LETTER FRO?d PARTS, OCT. 10.

''''';;••'"l-6. Quantum mutatus-ab ill°
&main
" Among the various topics, which form the theme
of conversation and general remark in the higher
• li,rcies, I have principally to notice the conduct of
Fox, and certain ocher leading Characters, who,
assure. you, act a very different part from what,
"°t only their own immediate followers on your
tide of tie water would suppose, but what the
4'atisians in general, from their reputed superiority
9f talent and celebrity, were led to expeel. Previous
• I.fl the departure of Mr. Fox for the Continent, the
4nglish Newspapers took great pains to wind up
public curiosity to its highest pitch, by represent-
3-tg his projected-tour, as an objed of the first im.
Portance to the Republic of Letters. Day after day
we were told, that the chief inducement, whiCh
-°mPted this 44 cvreat and consummate Statesman"
to underuk., a
journeyr' to France, was to colic&
material..for his invaivahle Histsry •
the Norte of
Storer ._a work on which he is known to have long
employed his pen, and more particularly those nu-
merous leisure hours, which his inveterate secession
groin his Parliamentary Duties .afforded in super-
measure. The Literati of Paris accord_
!ngly looked to his arrival with eager solicitude,
holding themselves in readiness to supply him with
-every possible means of information, and antici.
1 rating from his researches, the most momentous
discoveries,
" At length the memorable epoch arrives—the
, eat Man lands in safety, in the territories of the
.r.rench Republic. Every where he is received with
‘hemost distinguished honours, every where welcom-
-4
111 a raiinner the most gracious., the most flattering
f_eP 114 pr,T) feelings. Nay, public enthusiasm seems
.tei"n tooutstep the bounds of prudence, insomuch
t the official Journal of the Government finds it
weessary to interpose a check to this ebullition-of
popular delirium, by a series of animadversions
equally pertinent and bold. Still it awards to his
'tirt,e, tiny acquirements and senatorial repute,' their
41Dute of applause—still pays homage to his intel-
c:ual superiority and matured political experience.
Meanwhile, Time runs on in his wonted career
byPasses after day, but no mention (I am speak-
ith-Feli3eCrto hii histcricatenterprize) of Mr.
no cvoimen‘emant of his iitwary

The only sphere in which. the great Man moves.,-,
the only Stage on which he ails—the only List on.
which he enters his Name, are the Female Coteries
of Paris! This, howeiter, may he pardoned for a
Season. /Est)? has taught us, that the bow must
.not be always bent; and, as HoßacE remarks,

Neque semper arcum,

Teiidit Apollo.

" Doubtless his mighty mind stands in need of
relaxation—doubtless he only courts a temporary
relief from the toils of thought, and the fatigues of
travelling. Gathering strength from repose, doubt.
less he will return; in the fulness of time, with fresh
vigour and increased aaivity, to his-literary occu-
pations. Then, like the Sun, emerging from the
intervening cloud, will he shine forth with reno-
vated splendor, and dazzle the Spetlator with the
effulgence of his beams. _ _

"And now the round of ceremonious introduCtion
is completed—the Great Man of Great Britain is
presented to the Great Man of France. Bows,
smilea, and civilities are interchanged---a species
of entertainment, peculiarly dclelable, it seern, to
the palate of the English Patriot, who, it is parti-
cularly remarked, is not satisfied with his own pro-
per draught and share of the Cordial, but, like
Dobson, in the Farce, still follows the bowl, edging in
at every turn, and accompanying the Fl RST CONSU L
in all his motions, as the satellites of Jupiter cir-
cumvolve round their predominant planet. Now,
then, the necessary initiation duly performed, we
may justly exped that Tactros will revert to his
historical labours—resumc his pen—and fulfill the
mighty hopes formed of his transcendant powers.
But, alas ! how sanguine and how vain is human ex-
pedation ! How illusory our fondest hopes ! How
chimerical our conceptions of Greatness ! The oil od
which, seen through the fog at a distance, appears a
mountain, on our nearer approach 'converts to a

Minuit prxsentia famam !

" But dropping metaphor, and having recourse to
plain and unsophisticated speech, 'tis not merely
that Mr. Fox, contrary to all expectation, has ex-
hibited himself in a light and trifling point of view,
so as to provoke the ridicule of men of sense 'and
knowledge—Nis not merely that he has laid aside
the Statesman, to play the child—hut he has, in
a still more eminent degree, rendered himself the
objed of unqualified rebuke and censure, by his
glaring dereliction of principleantil char:it-ter. Not
oniy has this boasted Champ° 'cl:Prie do'7n, this
darling Alan of the People (conjoiviiii.rviili otl.er
soi.disant Patriots and reputed Whigs, among whom
the name of Counsellor Eco deserves pat tictuarly to
be noticed) forfeited the' national claim of Britons,
to manly sentiment and feeling, by his ahjea ser-
vility and cringing adulation to the FIRST C0N,,1)
insomuch' that it is become a general . remark in
Paris, that none bow so low as the English ; but
great and lamentable as is the laxity .of m,,rals in
France, even in this' point of view, has Mr. Fox
incurred universal obloquy, by the little attention
he pays to decorum, in his female connections.--
Were it not that I have it from positive and incon-
trovertible authority, I should not be able to credit
it, much less should I venture to relate the fads I
am going to detail, and, in the exposition of which,
I must, with regret, involve persons of high name
and illustrious descent.
" The charaCter of Madame-TALI.I Ex is sufficient-
ly known on your side of the Channel, to super.
sede the necessity of further comment and illustra-
tion on my part. Suffice it, therefore, to observe,
that no Parisian lady, who sets the slightest value
on. the good opinion of her own sex, will either vi.
sit, or receive visits from her. She livts in high
style, being at one and the same time the favourite
of G—D—N, the Minister, and 0 —H—D, the
Contractor, one of the wealthiest men in France.
By an amicable arrangement, her admirers share her
company alternately—one decade she smiles upon
G—D—N, and the next upon 0-11—D.
Yet would it be believed, not only Mr. Fox
attends this lady's parties, in company with his wife,
(Mr. ERSKINE being generally an aditirid'on these
occasions) but that a British Peer of the realm can
be so far forgetful of his own dignity, 'and the re_
sped due to propriety, as to join iheSe parties with
his Countess ? At a dinner given by'Matianie TAI—
LIEN, at her hotel, the only females present were
Mrs. Fox, and the Countess above alluded to I The
same Countess lately gave a dinner in return, at
which, Mrs. Fox, and Madame TALI. EN were the
only female guests I " Oh, shame, where is thy
blush!"—Grear, indeed, must be the breach of de-
corum, black the record of moral delinquency,
which can entail the reprobation of Parisian Cen.
sors !

" At the time that Madame T4LLIEN'S husband
lits in England, being. captured by our cruizers on
Ills return from Egypt, he experienced a degree of
marked attention from the leaders of the Whig
Party, which justly provoked the censure of men of
loyal and moderate principles. Dinners were given
on the occasion, and the fumes of a certain kitchen
obscured the whole atmosphere of Portland Place.
But the case is now completely altered—being no
longer in the sun.shine of court favour--no longer
enjoying the smiles of the Fists'', CONSUL, his
quondam English friends turn their backs on him.
Neither Mr. Fox nor Mr. ERSKINE, much as they
admire the good dinners of the ruilire, have conde-
scended to honour the hus3and with a visit.

." But how shall I hope to obtain credit for the fol-
lowing fail, the authenticity of which you may rely
upon, and which winds up the climax of Mr. Fox's
political tergiversation and inconsistency. The
man, whom of all others (if he has any the slightest
respeCt
,to charader) he ought most sedulously, to
avoid, the man, whose company he ought to shun,
as he would the basilisk and spotted snake !—from
whose touch he ought to recoil with instinaive hor-
ror, as from the touch of infectious and pestilential
disease !---the man, who has damned, not .c.nly his
own individual charafter, but that of alinost all the
leaders of the party !--7-in company with that very
man has Mr. Fox sat down to dinner ! !! I antici_
pate your astonishment—l presage your incredulity,
when I add his name, a name familitir 'with
lion, rind identified 'with treason! ! !—ARTNUR
O'CONOR. !--In company with this mai) d4i.
Mr.- Fox sit doWn to dinner at Madame TAL-
L I EN'S !--Tell it not in Gath—publish it not in
A.skaloner•-Let not IVl4idStone hear the sound—nor

St. Armes Him learn the tidings, After such
damning fals as these, what opinion can we form
of Mr. Fox's politica! creed ? Can we !nger won-
der at the glaring incoiltilstleies w!-tielk h:r.re ever
marked his political career ? Can his celchmed
Coalition with Lord NORTH longer excite our ato-
nisliment 1"

I i•••••••!....... ••••(

THE THEATRE.--The third appearance of Mr.
STEPHEN KEMBLE in Falstaff, on Saturday 1 tsr,
at Drury-Lane Theatre, fully confirmed the repu-
tation which he has acquired by his perCurnianee of
that very difficult character. He played with great
spirit, and with a flow of genuine unlaboured hu.
mour, which excited abundant applause throughout.
It is really a performance wry creditable to his ta-
lents, and he plainly proves that the site of his un-
derstanding, as well as of his person, is well fitted
for the support of a part in which the great Author
seems to have indulged the luxuriance of his comic
genius. The Theatre was at an early hour crowded
in all parts.
STEPHEN KEMBLE is engaged at Croydon and
Richmond. He is to perform Falstaff' at the
former place this evening.
DWYER, it seems, has resigned the part of Lord
Trinket in The 7ealcas Wife. It is so good a
Comedy, that it ought to be brought forward with
all the strength of the Theatre, and there is cer-
tainly no man in it who is likely to perform the
part in question so well as llw.:( ER.

If Mr. SHERIDAN has really resumed his drt:-
matic pen, the Public will, we hope, derive a
double advantage from his literary diligence. They
will have the positive benefit of his produitinn,
and the fear of comparison may perhaps thiter othor
soi-d;taNt Dramatists from annoying the Town
with their crude abortions.
If the Theatre at Madrid is no better than that
at Lisbon, K.FmiILE will profit but little by his
journey. In the latter place, it is not unusual for
Artizans who have been at work in the,day to
perform on the stage at night. A Shoemaker of
Lisbon was a kind of Ro.s:u.r. Through the tLy
he humbly submitted to the labours of the acvl,
and in the evening he ambitiously wielded the
heroic truncheon.

It is reported that a certain Colonel intends to
resign the management of the Pic-Nic Society, and
thai he will be succeeded by Mr. KING, Master of
the Ceremonies at the lower rooms at Bath.
Mr. Le Bm, Master of the Ceremonies at Mar.
gate, is mentioned as likely to succeed Mr. KING,
at the lower rooms of Bath.

A wonderful change is taking place in French
manners. French men are growing cleanly, and
French women decent ; the former wear shirts and
powder, and the latter one petticoat.
SIVAFFAIs4, Bishop of Winchester, in 1286, ob-
tained a licence from the Pope to erea a ducking
stool in his diocese, as he declared it was so over-
run with Scolds, that the church bells could not be
heard for their tongues on a Sunday.

There is a fellow, who, about twelve o'clock
every Sunday, colleCts a great crowd at the Seven
Dials, by preaching from a tub turned upside down.
He has a kind of black robe, somewhat tike a Cas-
sock, and is .extremely voluble and clamorous.—
This fellow is supposed to be hired by ,Publicans
and Gin-shops in tbat neighbourhood, as the multi.
rude that assembles must greatly increase their sale
of spirits.
A Prophet in Germany has been beforehand with
him, who lately advertised in a Leeds Paper that
the end of the WOO would take place in the year
/sof:, ; the former having foretold that that event
would, happen on the tath of September last. A
terrible storm happening on that day at Trieste,
more dreadful than any within the memory of any
man there, the inhabitants of that town imagined
the PrediCtion waS then fulfilling.
Lieutenant•CQlonel kocrNSON, Deputy Adju,
tant_General to the King's -Troops in the Carnatic,
has been obliged, to rectify) to England for the be.
refit of his health :—the Commander in Chief,
Lieutenant-General STUART, in general orders,
dated Head Quarters, Choultry Plain, loth May,
observes, that he cannot suffer him to embark with-
out expressing his sincere regret, that the state of
his health " should compel that meritorious Officer
to relinquish the situation of Deputy Adjutant-
General, Which he had held with so much honour to
himself, advantage. to the Service, ,and so entirely
to the satisfadion of his superiors."

One of the Mutineers of the Hermione is stetted
to have obtained a lucrative situation in the.ustom
Department at the Havannah, and that some others
of these miscreants have settled there, and by the
favour of the Governor, have attained a state of
opulence. We should doubt the possibility of
such events, but that it is recorded in the evidence
which appeared on the trials of some of these
fellows who were taken, that the Spanish Officers,
as the purchase and encourvgement of treachery,
paid 45 dollars to each of the Mutineers who
carried the Frigate into port.
Lord MULGRAVE has been humanely and pa.
triotically employed in giving premiums to his re-
.nants ant 4 poor neighbours, for their improvement
in Agriculture, for industry, and general good
conduct—to some, pieces of plate were given ; to
others, cows, pigs, &c. proportioning the pre-
miums at once to the condition and to the merit of
the Candidates.

The average Price of Sugar, computed from the
returns made fa. the week ending the 13th day of
(Dauber, 18oz, is Thirty.fa4r Shillings and Nine
Pence Three Is'artbings per; hundred weight.
The Coroner's Jury which, on Thursday, sat on
the body of the -iatelieu:enant FRASER, -killed
near Canterbury, in consequence a being thriown
from his gig Limier the wheel Sofa waggon, found a
Verdia—Accidental Death.

. .
The Overseer of the Poor of Peddletrenthidc;
in Dorset, h:ls.been fined tiol, and sentenced to three.
months imprisonment, for suborning a pauper of •a
neighbouring parisi to marry- a common-prostitute
of his town, in order to rendez Ilex- 4:ll.o.rge4ble .to
the former,