The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-28 00:00:00

PARIS, Ovr.-2.5.

THE late troubles in Helvetia having occasioned
inquietude to the neighbouring States, the French
Government, as soon as it saw the disorder stopt,
and its mediation demanded, hastened to make a
communication on the subje& to the neighbouring
Powers. The following is the Letter written on
that occasion on the rsth inst. to M. de CErto, the
Bavarian Minister.

'-'HE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO M. DE

C ETTO.

" Paris, 60. 15, iSO2

" Sir, The relations of neighbourhood which exist between
Bavaria and Switzerland, and which ought to render yet
More secure the new acquisitions which His Electoral High-
ness has made in Germany, call for his particular attention
to the late events of which 'Helvetia has been the theatre.
That Country has long been divided. The influence of in-
trigue and money, has hitherto prevented the Government
Which had been established by the suffrages of the majority
of the People, from becoming firmly established, and ac-
quiring the power necessary to its prescrvarion.
" Whilst the opposition was confined to insidious and ob-
3eUre menaces, the First Consul did not think it his duty to
interfere in discussions to which circumstances, and the in-
fluence of the general Peace of Europe, promised to put an
end• But at length the Enemies of the Helvetic People at-
tempted a more open opposition. Blood was shed, and Hel-
Vetia was menaced with ruin.
" In this frightful c.enjuudure of affairs, the wishes of all
demanded the mediation of the First Consul. The Party even
Whc had taken up arms against the Government, led away
by the opinion of men who had deceived them, now saw the
necessity of solemnly claiming the mediation of France.
" The Continental Powers, neighbours of Helvetia, could
not view without fear, the remote consequences of a
disorder, the focus of which was established in that Coun-
try, and in this state of affairs, the Humanity, and the In-
ttrest of France, and of Europe, demanded of the First
Consul that he should desist from ading upon the determi-
tion which he had taken, not tointermeddlein the affairs of
Switzerland. He has spoken as a mediator and a friend, and
Helvetia has been pi-icifieci. The People have returned to their
homes, Those simple, and just men, seeing that they had been
:41") have menaced with violence% the Chiefs who sought
'l7) Slander France, and who in their public ads were per-
mitted to outrage her. General contempt now does justice
to their clamours.

" Such, Sir, are the fans which I have thought it my
duty to communicate to you. The First Consul did nck
'wish to abandon a Country which stands in need of the
friendship of France, and which, without the benefit of her
influence, would have passed in a short time through all the
horrors of anarchy under their ancient yoke, which they had
so happily broken.
" But at the time that he recognized the necessity of
assisting the Helvetic Nation to fix at length-for itself, and
in an irrevocable mariner, its constitutional destiny, lie did
not cease for a moment to recollea, that the more per_
feet independence ought to be the basis of its Constitu-
tion. The right-of organizing a Government which Helvetia
has acquired, is one of the glorious results of the War which
France supported against the most powerful Armies of Eu-
lope, and of the Treaties by which that War was terminated.

" It is because Helvetia holds this right by the vittories
and the benevolent policy of France, that the First Consul
Wishes now to prnted the exercise of it, and to prevent a
handful of turbulent Emigrants, deserters from Foreign Ar-
?flies, who wished to carry fire and sword into their Coon-
trY, from succeeding in their attempt to deprive of their
lights the greater part of their Fellow-Citizens.
" It is not by such men that the Treaty of Luneville
can be invoked as to what respects Helvetia, but by the larger
Portion of the People whom they wished to oppress, and
Whose independence is guaranteed by that Treaty. Are
these men so estimable, or so important a part of Het-
'Vetia, as Argovia, the Pays de Vaud, and the Bailiwicks
formerly subject, whose political rights were guaranteed
by France, not only in the Treaty of Luneville, but in all
those which, since the War, have strengthened the ancient
ties between France and Helvetia

There are those who seek to spread a report that the
Htivetic Republic may be led by a spirit of imitation to
establish with the First Consul those relations which unite
him to the Italian Republic. But this idea is very far from the
Intention oi the First Consul, who is inimical to all such
determination, and whose formal intention is to assist in the
Gran4ation of Switzerland, only for the purpose of ensuring
to that Country an absolute Independence.
" I am persuaded, Sir, that you will he extremely desir-
ous to transmit to His Eledoral Highness the communica-
tions which I have the honour to make to you, and of which
there is no necessity for me to appreciate the importance.
" Receive the assuranceof n-iy high consicigration,

(Signed) " CH. MAU, TALLEYRAND."

The Prcfei of Guada loupe has issued an order'
commanding all the Proprietors and Citizens of that
Island to deliver in a List of all the Blacks and
reopl:•c of Colour employed by them, either in culti-
vation, or as Domestics or Workmen, under the pe-
nalty of severe punishment incase they fail to obey.
Citizen BEAUSSI, the French Chargé de Ajjaires
to Tripoli, was received there on his return with
great distinftion.

Above thirty gaming-houses have been shut up
in this City, and we are assured that none will be
suffered to subsist in future, except those which have
a communication with the interior of places of
public amusement.
It is said that the Minister of the Interior is to
accompany the First Consul in the Journey which
he is about to make to Havre, Rouen, and Cher_
I°,irg, which is expeEted to take place very soon.
AUGSBURG, OCT. r4.—The Chancellor of the
BISHOP of PASSAU, M. tie RADEMACHER, has re-
paired to Ratisbon, to solicit the Deputation of the
Empire not to separate the City and Fortress
°f Passau from the rest of the Bishopric. It
appears, moreover, that representations have been
.111"de by the Mediating Powers, to engage the

Court of Vienna to withdraw its Troops from the
City and Bishopric ; already the Prince Bishop has
notified to the Magistracy of Passau, that the Pfe-
sence of the Austrian Troops will not be of longer
duration, and that it had no other obje& by the
military occupation of the Country, than to prevent
it from being dismembered.
BASLE, OCT. 18.—The Troops belonging to
Basle, which were ready to march on the first sig-
nal to join the Army of General BACHMANN, are
to remain here until farther orders. It is said that
the Diet of Sch,witz will govern the Republic until
the Government is definitively organized, and the
Members of the Central Government, who are to
return to Berne, have given in their resignations.—
The Ist and zd Helvetic Half-Brigades, ought to
have arrived by this time in this City. The Troops
on both sides are to be disbanded.

BERNE, OCT. I7.—The Deputies which our
Provisional Government sent in order to con-
sult with the Diet of Schwitz, respeeting the
steps that ought to be taken in the present situa-
tion of affairs, have returned : they have brought
an order to General BACHMANN, to disband the
Confederate Army. Yesterday and the day be..
fore, the Contingent Troops belonging to the smaller
Cantons returned home. Those belonging to Schwitz
carried with them an Helvetic Standard, which they
took in the Battle of the 3d inst. The Levies of Troops
which were ordered in several of the Cantons, have
been suspended. General AUF-DER-MAUR passed
throught this. City a few days ago, on his way
to Sehwitz. General BACHMANN is here. with his
Staff. Citizen GUADOLPIIE, Secretary of -Lega-'
tion to Citizen VERNINAC, has inviied the Com-
mission of Ten to re-assemble,-and has made some im.
portant propositions to them. _Yesterday Gen. RAPP
gave a grand dinner, at which General BACHMANN
and his Staff were present.°• The Helvetic Govern-
ment are not yet arrived here.
CORFU, AUG. 3o.—The Secretary of the Rus-
sian Legation, M. NEMEROFSKI, yesterday killed
himself in his own apartment. 'He discharged two
pistols into his, body. His manners had conciliated
the esteem of every body, and particularly of his
Excellency Count MOCENEGN the Russian Pleni-
potentiary. •

_RATISBON, OCT. IS. —The Deputation of the
Empire held yesterday its fifteenth Sitting—Mentz
and Hesse-Cassel voted for .ihe new Plan of Indem-
nities ; the majority is consequently in favour of
that Plan. Bohemia, Saxony, and the Grand Mas-
ter of the Ter/tonic Order, have not yet voted.—
The Deputatiqn have not yet agreed to a Conclusum ;
they wait till the Minister of Bohemia has received
instructions from Vienna.

THE HAMBURGH MAIL.

RATISBON, OCT. 15.

•

THE Russian Legation here has. receiyed instruc-
tions to accede to the alterations in the second Plan
of Indemnities, as sent from Paris.

The Russian and French Ministers gave in another
Nute to the Deputation of the Empire on the •f3th,
containing some emendations of the tith Article of
the new Plan of Indemnities ; at the_ conclusion
they again earnestly recommend to the Deputation
to vote a Conclusum on the Plan.

Many Reclamations have already been given 'in'
against the new Plan of Indemnities. The most
remarkable of,these, is that of the Deputy for the
Eletiora-te of Hanover, relative to considerable.
advantages granted to the City of Bremen, anti es-
pecially the grant of the distria and territory of
Vegesack, which is claimed as territorial property.
of the Eledorate of Hanover.

A Letter from Calcutta, dated so late as the sth
of May says—Letters have been received in Town,
announcing the capture of the Adirve, Captain W.
B. CiZEENWAY, by the Subtilite. privateer, Capt.
PINA.un, on the z ist of March, three days after
leaving Prince of Wales's Island for this Port, with a
valuable cargo on board. The above privateer is the
one that took the ,L6ghland Chief, and her Com-
mander is perfe6tly well acquainted with the Preli-
minaries of Peace having been concluded in Europe
we hope an example will be made of so daring a
marauder. PINAUD put the whole of the officers,
crew, and passengers of the At into an open
boat, near Acheen ; but Captain GREENWAY he
has detained on, board the privateer, and proceeded
no one knows where, as it is not probable that he
would go to the Mauritius, with such a flagrant
outrage.

A Gentleman in Canterbury-place, last .week
bespoke a pair of boots, which were sent. home
on Saturday, and the Gentleman being then out,
the shop-boy left them with the maid. In a few
moments afterwards a •man knocked at the door,
and asked if a pair of boots had not been sent there
from Mr. 's shop, and the tumid' answering
in the affirmative, he said—" Oh !. those boots are
not your master's, but have been sent by mistake.
I am the Foreman, and come to take them to the
Gentleman they were made for, and will afterwards
bring your master's boots, in about a quarter of an
hour." The maid, without any suspicion,..return-
ed him the boots, when the fellow thanked her, and
very deliberately walked away with his booty.

WINDSOR, Ocr. 26.

Tx L FANI I wneti here, pass their
rime between this and Frogmore. The KING since
his return from Weymouth, has suffered much from
a severe cold, but happily His •IVIAJEs'rY was List
week quite recovered. The QUEEN, who bas like-
wise been indisposed, is now in much better health.
The KING rises, as usual, about seven o'clock,
the QUEEN and PRINCESSES about eight ; at half
an hour after, the ROYAL FAMILY breakfast
gether. At ten o'clock they attend prayerS at
the Royal Chapel ; and about noon, His MAJESTY
rides out on horseback. By the bye, our Sovereign,
who never looked in better health, is grown very
lusty; this is ascribed to the little exercise he has
taken since his return from Weymouth. The
QUEEN and PRINCESSES take the air in their lan-
daulets about the same time that the King rides
our. The week before last the Queen's Lodge was.
very gay ;• a concert and cards every evening.

On Monday last oa. zg, the Volunteer Asso-
ciation of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George,
Queen-square, commanded by John Miller, Esq.
(having been lately disembodied) dined at the White
Hart Tavern, Holborn ; the Commandant for him-
self and his brother Officers, returned thanks to the
Corps for their very steady and attentive condua
during the whole time of their aaing in a military
capacity, and for the very great respell and confi-
dence they had always unanimously shewn towards
them, whereby the Corps had attained to a state of
discipline unequalled by any of the same descrip-
tion. He had also the satisfaaion to state, that
the portion of defence which they, in conjundion
with others, afforded to the Country in a time of
peculiar danger,• had met with. the warmest ap-
plause from every lover of his Country, and the
cordial Thanks of His Majesty and both Howe; of
Parliament. He concluded by assuring them that
their firm attachment to him and his Brother Offi-
cers had made such an impression on their minds as*
would 'be ever gratefully remembered by them.—
This speech was received with loud and unani.
mous applause, and the health of Captain Millet
and the rest of the Officers was drank; when
one of the Members, in the name of the rest, took
the opportunity ,of acknowledging the high sense
they entertained of the services the Officers had ren-
dered to the Corps, and that it was owing to their
perseverance and diligence the Corps had obtained
such a degree of credit ; and that, should circum-
stances at any future time render it necessary for
the same exertions to be made, they should all to
a man be found at their posts. Many loyal and
constitutional toasts were given, and the evening
ended with the most perfet conviviality.
Cr;m.Con.;n Low Life.---The following circum
stances took place a few days since in a . village
near Lewes, in Sussex:—An industrious Farmer
who had one morning risen before his amts.:
tomed time, to accompany one of his servants on
a journey with his team, was met on the road by
the Constable of the Hundred, who, in confidence
told him, that he had a warrant to execute on a
young man in his service; charged with bastardy,
and requested his assistance in the execution of that
duty, which the .Farmer readily promised, - and
having committed the care of the team to his sera.'
vant, returned with the Constable to his house,
where they arrived before the family was stirring,
and instantly proceeded to the Man's chamber,
where no doubt was entertained of taking him in
his bed,_ but 'this his mistress prevented, -by hay- •
ing, in her husband's absence, admitted him to
her own bed, where the poor cornuted Farmer,. by •
his unexpeled return, had the mortification to dis.-„,
cover him with his faithless rib ; but the yocrni
adulterer' avoided the effels of tiis indignation and''
fury, by leaping from the -bed as he. approached it,
and escaping, in his shirt, through the windii,,v to a
neighbouring wood, where, naked as he was, he
concealed him,elf for some time ; but we hear •he
has been•since taken, by virtue of the warrant that
was issued against him, and married- to the girl who
had charged him with the ad of bastardy.
At thd- Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday, an in.:
diament 'was preferred which prodUced much
laughter. It was against Sarah Dawson,
Saucy Bitt, for assaulting John Forger. The De-
fendant keeps a house in Monmouth-street, and.
the Prosecutor lodged with her. It appeared that
the elegant Betsey frequently saw company. At
the time of which festivity a quarrel ensued, when
playing at a game called Smut, at which these
polite and refined Ladies used frequently to amuse
themselves, and which Mr. ALLEY defined from
his brief to consist of blacking each other a poste-
riori with soot and tallow ; which little recreation
was a sort of forfeiture of the conditions of the
. game. The Learned Mr. Forger, on being ques-
tioned what he was, replied, a Translator ; and
some time was occupied before it could be tho-
roughly understood by the Court that this face-
tious son of Crispin meant a Cobler. During this
trial the Court found great difficulty to preserve
its necessary gravity.—The Defendant was ac-
quitted.

Among the Prisoners now in Newgate for. trial
at the present Old Bailey Sessions, is one of -the
name of Francis Finlay, who has the unprecedent-
edly numerous list of fifteen Detainers against him
—these are all for forgeries, and the greater part
on different charges ; every separate Detainer, save
twais under a distin& name, in the way of alias, as
Francis Finlay, otherwise Captain Watts ; Major
Graves ; Captain Wells; Major Brocke ; Captain
Hardy ; Major Farell ; Major Brown ; Lieut.-Col.
Farley, &c. &c. &c.

Late on Saturday night, as some Ladies and Gen-
tlemen were returning from Kenninguin in a 'car-
riage, where they had been spending the evening,
they were stopped,by two fellows armed with bind-
geons, who came out of Felix-street, near West-
minster_bridge ; but two Gentlemen who were a
short distance off, observing the carriage suddenly
stop, went to see the cause, when the villains ran
off without effeding their purpose.
On Sunday, about noon, a carriage was stopped
by several footpads between Stratford and the sign
of the Three Pigeons public.house, and the 'persons
in it robbed.

.T.,Air PEPSPf, ,-

COURT OF KlNG's BLNCII, Otl.T6to.
s ITTING3 I'F..FoRE LORD EI.I.,r.NEORDIJi;,I.4 AND S:E.,:f

JU.ItIES, IN GUILDHAi.i.,
.I,OND()N.,

THE basiness of the day diti commence until'
ten o'clock, owing to the latene.is of the hour when
the business of the preceding day, at the Admirai,
t 1 Scssions-,at the Old Bailey, .wrti concluded, and,
my Lord F,LLENBOROUGH 'Laving Loci] there um:
til that hour.

LE MESURIE It V. THOM.PSCfN.,

This was an aflion on a Policy of Insurancc 'or; 4_
ship bound to Gibraltar with a cargo of flour.
The Policy was .Cffened on account of the Trans.:
port Board, and the ship in question was-war_
ranted American.- As she was going into Gibs
raltar, she was captured by a Spanish ship or-
war, carried to Spain, libelled in the Adniiralt-y"
Court there, and ultimately' cond;mned, The
ground of COndeinnatiOn upon which the Spanish
Tribunal proceeded, was, that the vessel was -goink'
into Gibraltar, which at that time' wa's a blockaded
Port by the Ships of Si Ni in. The Thcrpe of Co odemna:
don alledged, that to enter a blockaded Port was-in
contravention of the stipulations between Spain and
the United States of America, and therefore it Ajudg_
ed the vessel lawful prize Much as it was matter of
astonishment that Gibraltar should be considered in
a state of- blockade by the Spaniards, yet.as their
Court of Competent Jurisdiai,m had formally stated
that fad as the ground of confiscation, the Under-
writers thought themselves entitled to resist the
payment of the sums insured.

The decree of the SpaniSh Court of Admiralty
was given in evidence on the part of the Defendant
but on the other hand it was contended, that at the::
time of effecting the insurance, all the facts respe6l,-J
ing the situation of Gibraltar were equally- withirri
the knowledge of the parties ; that there was-coh:.-i
sequently nothing illegal in the ',contrail ; that the'i
Underwriters were apprized of the circumstances
constituting what the Spanish Court construed into -2
a blockade.

Lord. ELL ENBOROVG.H observed, that it wasa.-!
question of some- importance,. and he:direeted the-4,
Jury to find a Special Verdici for the Plaintiff, sub-'
jed to the future determination of. the Court:Zf
King's Bench. • , .