The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-02 00:00:00

LONDON, JANUARY 2, 1802.

THIS morning arrived the liambursh Mail due
on Wednesday last. Its contents, not very impor_
tant, will be foupd in a subsequent Column. The
FIEREDITARY PRINCE Of BADEN) died on the t6th
ult. in consequence of having been overturned in his
carriage.

ME French Papers which we received yester-
day, detail no events of - immediate importance:
The discussions on the various setions of the
Civil Code are continued with much temper and
sobriety, but the Tribunes of France are no longer
distinguished by that vigorous eloquence which
rendered the proceedings of the Constituent
Assembly so deservedly interesting in the annals of
Legislation, It
,is an easier, and perhaps a more
popular work, to destroy a.building erenecl by the
progressive wisdom and experience of ages, than to
form a finished model, from the labour of a few
weeks. There is, however, one leading feature in
the charaaer of the present Legislators of France,
which, if they steadily adhere to, will give them;
decided superiority over all the talents and rhetorical
powers of their predecessors. It is this—rthey are
unwilling to depart from the beaten road of an
enlightened experience. If, unhappily for their
country, they should forget this principle ; if to
gratify personal vani,ty, they should again embark
on the vast ocean of Chimera, they must expect to
make shipwreck, and to revive those days of sorrow
and vice, which have so cruelly visited their dis-
tra4ed Country.

It shall be .our business to anal)* the different
Systems of Legislation'aS they may be successively
proposed, and".to submit to. the Public such animad_
versions as their nature and.tendency may require.
h The only article worthy of notice upon this sub-
jeEt, is the adoption of the Projet for a prolongation
of the punishment of Death-in cases of egregious of-
fence against Public Order. This point was de-
cided in the Sitting- of the Tribunate on thG 25th
ult. by 71 votes against to.
The Preliminaries of Peace have already proved
highly advantageous to the Turkish Empire.—
PAsswArr Oci.,ou has been deseFted by many of
his adherents, and the diminishing number of his
forces gives every reason to hope, that the mutinous
spirit which 10 long convulsed Turkey will be com-
pletely suppressed.

In Botany Bay, the restless genius of Insubordi-
nation has also manifested itself. But this temper,
as well as the unruly spirit which is said to have
broken out in the West Indies, must be regarded
rather as the rolling of the waves after a long and
severe storm, than as any evidence of a pre-deter-
mined attempt at change. Our Readers will per-
ceive, from a perusal of the vigorous yroelamation
which has been issued by, the Government of that
Colony, that the most decisive measures have been
adopted to prevent a repetition of thcse disgraceful
scenes of turbulence. . L •
K, • s

A Council of His Mk; EsTy's. Ministers was yes-
terday held at Lord HAwxEsßuity's Office; at
which most of the Members of Administration at-
tended.
The PRINCE of WALES, who was prevented
by illness from visiting the ROYAL FAMILY at
Windsor the j)eginning of this weel(, is sufficiently
recovered to go abroad and dine with his friends.
Hi's Royal Highness dined on Wednesday at the
Duke of QUEENSBERRY'S.
Mr. PITT left Lord HAWKESB\IR Y'S Seat at
Roehampton, near Wimbledon Common, On Thurs-
day, for Mr. LoNo's, at Bromley Hill; 'and' yes-
terday set off for Earl CAMDEN'S, -at his residence
in the Wilderness, Kent.
Lady JANE DUNDAS, comes to 'Town on Wed.
nesday from Melville Castle, -in SotlantL Her
Ladyship will afterwards accompany Mr. DuNDAs
to Bath.
The PRINCE of ORANGE,' the F.x,Stadtholder of
Holland, accompanied by his Son the HEREDITARY
PRINCE, and a smalf-Suite, is at length arrived in
his Principality of Nassau, where he has been very
well received. They lodge at
,the houses of several
individuals, until the Castle, which is preparing,
shall be ready for their reception. Since the cele7
braced WILLIAM the First, •Prince of Orange, ‘vho
assisted the 'Dutch to shake off the Spanish yoke,
the Princes have never administered their German
States in person.
Private advices from Paris mention, that Ge-

['era's MASSE NA, AMOER EAU, LANNES, and
BERNADOTTE, have reciprocally agreed not to
accept any place under BoNA PASO:E. ATIS-
SENA will not go to Constantinople; nor LANNEs
to Portugal. BERNADOTTEJ _N7hO- was the
tars Commandant of the Division, of Brest, is of-
, fended at not having had the Command of the Ex_
pcdition to St. Domingo, as it had been promised
to him. He had the mortification to see the very
' troops which he commanded, and which he had
tritined for sp many months, passing under the
command of another.

NAP'/IL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, 1:02,c , 3r,

ARRIVED the Neptune, of 98 guns, Vice-4d-
mind J. GAMS lER, and Prince, of 98 gut* Cap-
tain J. L.ott /NG, from Torbay.
Six Sail of the Line sailed from Torbay yester-
day for Spithead, and eleyen Sail of the Line remain
at Torbdy,