The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-26 00:00:00

PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA:

THIS Par'slCE Was born in /72:0, on the 18th of
January, a day which has been solemnized during
a century, as the Anniversary of the Prussian
Kingdom. He.made hiS first campaign in his six-
teenth•year, accompanying the Royal Arnik as a
Colonel, in 1742, into Moravia; and being soon
after present at the Vi6lory of Chorusilz. In the
Seven Years War, where he commanded the Second
Army, he distinguished himself in a manner whii,ll
procured him the unqualified . approbation of Nis
Great Brother; the blessings of the Ptussian Domi.;
nions, and the admiration of all Etircipe, What
is
.so universally known needs only be hinted at. •
In the War concerning the Bavarian .SucceSsion, he
again commanded the Seccinl Army, and penetrated
from Saxony into Bohemia: In 1776 he ttavelled
Id Stockholm, t7-fd thence to Perersburgh, whence
fie.returned to. Berlin with the Great Duke (after,.
wards Emperor) PAut. In 5780 he went to Spas
where he had a Conference with the Emperor
jostpH, and he aftetw-ards Visited. France;
Wherever he went he gained the love and adstni-
' ration of all who had the happiness to know him;
2 for his character was not only ennobled and exalted
by warlike virtues and political penetration, but
refined by misceilaneous knowledge of every kind,
by a taste for Science and the Fine Arts ; and the
Hero dreaded in the Field, was admired in the
. society of Genius arid Learning as the most polished
and cheerful companion. His brilliant .Court was
an assemblage of noble and ingenious persons, both
from abroad And at honle: He Was a great C'cinnols-
seur in .Music, and had an admirable Band of.Musi-
ciant for his Chapel; arid an. excellent -Company of
French Comedians. He bestowed much taste and
magnificence in embellishing Reinsberg, presented
to him by his brothet after the Peace of Huberts-
berg. This romatic situation i-eivOured the hap-
, piest improvements, and the Monutitents he has
ereCted in the gardens to the memory of Many' of
his deserving contemporaries, are the fairest Mo-
numents of his o•wn feeling heart. • FREDERi6C the
GREAT a said of him, tiaai he had not committed a
single fault throughout the whole Seven Years War.
Prince HENRI' wad married to bet Selene Highness,
the Princess WILHELMINA, daughter of MAxisit-
. L I AN, Landgrare. of Hesse Cassel, and the marriage
was consummated at Charlottemberg, June is, 1752.
As an hononr to his memory, the KING has ordered
:that all Officers shalt wear a crape on their arm fora
:fortnight. The Court is also gone into mourning
for the same time.

alloAroLx SCRUTINY—Mt. HARVEY'S Motion
having been complied with by the High Sheriff, for
scrutinizing an equal number of Cox R antt ASTI. E
Votes, until .Colonel WO I) HOUSE'S deficiency,
from their having objeaed to two for one was made
good, Sir JAcon AsTLEVs majority was reduCed
down to 87 on Friday, and 3t the close on Saturday
evening, the Baronet's majority was increased to
93. As the Sheriff mast, by a late Ad of Parlia.
*mem, make a return of the Writ into the Crown
Office on the 3tst inst. :the whole of this tedious
business is expeaed to terminate on Saturday or
Monday next, at the latest.

It has been, said that BANTI had a husband, but
that he had
.not been heard of for some years.—Her
husband,' hoWever, was with her during the whole
of her residence in this Country, but he was a very
quiet mari-,-7and not remarkable for seeing or hear_
ing. _ _ .

The Flour Company begin to find, that in order
to carry on their business they must come do tun
(with the dust. It is said they have lost 19,0001.
in manufaduring 16,c100 sacks of Flour !
Ever since a certain Barrister made -a formal
(weal to TII E Junce on the case of a supposed bad
dinner, he has always-been mentioned at Guildford
by the title of Sir Garrulous Guide.
A few days ago,- Mr. Rudd, Attorney, of. Old.
street Road, on a visit at a friend's house in Lin_
colnshire, the family being alarmed in thelight by
some villains breaking into the house, the man-
servant taking a loaded piece, went down stairs.
Mr. Rudd • also followed, but unperceived •by the
man-servant, who, conceiving him to be one of the
villains, instantly fired at him, and wounded him
in so shocking a. manner, that he expired in two
hours after. He has left a wife and two children:

On Saturday last, Mr. WRIGHT of the Strand,•
unfortunately fell
:overboard and was drowned, in
his passage by the Packet from Boulogne to Dover.
"He had been talking 'very .ckeerfully a few minutes
:previous to the misfortunerhappening, with some
Ladies in the Cabin, but• complaining of heat, and
-that he was sick in conseciuence of it, he went upon
deck, and it is sUpp;”eti tat leaning too far over
the side of the Shit, he'lost his balance.

iiiiiiiiiii p-doi4;.i

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O Monday -afternoon; about fotir o'clock; ..tne
I)oeks being,considered as complete,: the water was
admitted. The first ',aperture . for . letting in the
- water' was :fade about . a foot under the low wafer
mark in the preveffter dam (.the-plaCe that stood
the shock when the co ire iinrngave way sortie time
since),; bUt it was found necessary, in consequence
of the water coming in very: slowly, to make. ano-
ther 'aperture of - the..satne. dimensions on Tuesday
afternoon. SUch is the extent
,of, this vast uncles:.
taking, that although the. Water ran into the Dock's
after the rate of to to 100 d gallons in a second,
yet the great "Dock was not completely covered by
the next morning at six o'clock. NO kind of form
Was used upon the occasion of letting in the water,
as Was. expected. The order of the Dire tors for open_
ing the darn was known td very few, except those
Immediately engaged in the undertaking.. To-
morroW; Is fixed for the grind day, when the principal
ceremony, will take place. tine o'clock is the hoot
appointed for admitting the shipping. The Royal
Standard will be hoisted at six o'clock in
-the morn-
ing on the warehouse. No. 8, under which the first.
stone was laid on the itch of July, 1800. Another
Flag wilt be placed on No. Z. Preparations are
making for accommodating the Nobility, Gentry,'
and the friends of. the Directors, to see the ceremony.
They. will be accommodated on the Quay;-"and on
the roof of No. 8, where 700 persons 'May be ,ad-
mitted. No kind Of extraordinary parade will take.
place, and only two Ships will be admitted ; the
first Will be The Ilenty Addington,, the handsomest
ship in the River, built about t'o years since ; and
the second, a loaded ship. Capt. Sl'lMpsoN, the
'Principal Dock Master, it is reported, Will bring in
the first ship. *An extra guard, of too soldiers be-
longing to the Ist Regiment, will attend to preserve
order, and prevent all persons who have not a Di-
rector's ticket, Worn getting on the Docks on the
North and West side ROBERT MiLLip Ail, Esq. the
Chairman of the Committee, will superintend the
whole undertaking. It is said that the PRINCE of
Wit, es will honour the ceremony with his presence,
and ilia His Royal Highness will come on board
the Trinity Yacht. No boats will be admitted on
any account into the Dock the first day. After the
ceremony: is over, the Mt-dim, the Nobility,
•Gentry,.:Sfe. will proceed to the London Tavern,
and there partake of a sumptUous dinner Orde-red for
the occasion. On Saturday, thee-whole of the ship.
ping now lying at BlAckwall wiil be admitted.
The wholeof the warehouses •are expected to be
finished in six months; . those numbered z, 4., and
8, are nearly ready ; No. 7 will be the next ; No. 6
and g will follow. There still rem-:ins space for
three more warehonses tin the North Quay. Should
the 'general undertaking answer the. expectations
formeka fund will be -Provided' to carry on. further
improienients: -

Thomas Paix.b embarked a few days since at
Havre for America.

On Monday night fthiards the end of Peckham
Fair, such a scene of Villany And bloodshed took
place, rap was never perhaps heard of on a similar oc-
egsiorii. At different parts of the ground on which
the Fait: at Peckham. is principally held, are some
narrow' entrances, through which people pass back-
wards and forwarsg On their return that way
About ten o'clock, a numerous and desperate gang
of Pickpockets planted themselVes near to the
passage; and as the people -came up, openly at-
tacked those who appeared Worth plundering.
They first snatched away the hats of both men and
women, and the women's handkerchiefs from
,off
their necks. Some young %%valet', oftiecent appear-
ance; were stripped to their petticoats, and several
gentlemen, after losing their hats, had the flaps of
their 'coats, as well as their pockets, cut away by in-
strtitnents, and Many lost their money and watches.
Those who resisted were treated in the most brutal
manner. A female actually had one of her ears
cut off for the sake of a valuable ear-ring, the vil-
lains not being able to pull it away as they had
done the other. Manv respectable persons_ who
had endeavoured to defend their property, were.
dreadfully mangled with sticks about the head and
face. A young man and woman of very decent
.aprarance were attacked by a party of the same
gang, on the road leading from Peckham to Lon-
don ; they cut away the ,young man's pocket, and
took his hat, and then seized the affrighted female,
whose dreadful shrieks, though 'Az:lrd all over the
neighbourhood, did not .prevent them from cutting
off her pockets. The same ,night. a young man.
being out' late, was robbed, by thyee villains on
Blackfriari Bridge of a guinea.. It also ~appears
that the gang, after robbing a young man in Peek-
hatn.lane, threw him into a ditch, where he wasfound
senseless. •

It is a great consolation to learn, that t S of these
desperate villains have hen apprehemled, have un-
dergone an examination at the Police Ofiiee in the
Borough, and many of them have been committed for
trial.

Tikesday evening the Coroner's Inquest sat at the
Ship, Charing-cross, on the body of John Gilham,
who died the same morning at three o'clock.----4t
appeared' that the deceased had been to Ozikham; and
returnedlorne very 'bitch i:ltoxicated, which was the
cause of his death. The jury, after an invcstiga_
tion of near ,four hours, 14rought in their verdiCi.,
died by the 'excess of drinking. The deceased was
a journeyman at Mr. LINCHAM'S Breeches. Manu-
fidory, Charing-cross. ; • ' •

THAMES 'POLICE OPPlCE.—Yesterday Catha-
rine Mansfield, who was in the habit of 'procuring
Seamen for the Merchants during the war, as a Crimp,
was examined on the charge of jbseph Richardson,
on suspicion of feloniously forging a seaman's-will,
the xoth of April, 1797, purporting to be the last
will and testament of One Ralph, other, vise Matthew
Gore (who died near that period). with intent to
defraud Elizabeth Gore, having received al. at
Somerset house, to the injury of the said E.. Gore,
Tlp Prisoner said, that it was a legal and fair tran-
saelion, as she could prime by a subscribing witness
to the will; but that person,- who is in a low situa-
,tion, is not yet produced; it not b'eing known where
tae is to be found ; she. was therefore committed for
re-examination:

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FRtscri.egßC`:?-:

Ws had t4eivcd follo•hiing Orride,reiztive
to the conduit of file Coristitutior* Bisliops
have been transferred to new Sees : it t;ootiiinssozr::
curious circumstances, either not kith:tr.; known,
or which have been misrepresented.

A .new Allot-Wick Of the Para has beeri Pubes

. . ,
• . . ,
i. The I-to!y. rather displays the strongest °ppd..
sition to the Organic Articles of the Concordat, and
to the Liberties of the Galilean Church,--4The Go:-
,
vernmetit is well able to defend them, , .

z. The Holy Father declares,
,that the c.onsi.-
tutional Bishops
.were not in the unity of the
Church;'and of the 4Postolic See, because they hail
not received Institution from the Pore. It i 3 cer-
rain.that the Bishops of tne twelve first centuries
neithee-kletnandeci nor received this In t'st<<tiona

3. The POPE speaks in the Allacstti,n, of the re:A
conciliation of the Constitutional Bkhops,with the
Holy See, and of the necessary debt which they
hav6acquitted on this:stibjed towards the Church.
The folloWini Letters from M. LAC:!oriae, ap.
pointed to the' Sec of- Angoulalne, indicate whin
that teconciiilition is, and how it has been made.

" Paris, 22, 217,.)2,

DONTINIQUE LACoMIiE, BISHDP OF AtIOOLTLE?IP,
TO THE 2tEVERENII CHARL.E6..BII.I.t:LT; UisHor

OF BAYEOX.

"-V4EI,.:'EP.AI3Lt COLLEAGUE,

" I am happy to 'share the interest which yod
take with respeet to the Venerable Brother BEtt.
NARDIT formerly cute of Ebreon, and at present
exercising his clerical flinaions at Monbron, in the.
Diocese of Angoulne.. I will do ftir him what
you yourself would do, if you. were in my place.
You and several of his friends have effe:.:idally mi.fe
known to me' his incrit,and his desires. Althotigh
he is :said to belong to a party of which I do not
make one,- I will consider him as if we had pro-
ceeded, together in the same line of conduCt. "He is
worthy of my confidence, and he shall have it: Ile
ought to be Cure of Monbron, and lie shall be; tin-
less the Government oppose it. I shall never for-
get, or pass ever, as those who have' Organi-ieit
Church of Paris have forgotten, and•thrown aiitte
the Cures and Vicars, who have, as well as ni'yself,
obeyed with a constant and unalterable fidelity, the.
Civit Constittition of the Clety.
" Stiffer me, Venerable Colleague, in my turn,
to mention to you N. N. t,vo persons who ficolie
with distinftion in the. Diocese which the First
ConSUl and. His HolineSs have conferred upon you.
He must shut his eyes to the light who does-not tilt-,
cover their virtues and their talents ; both rmry be
infinitely useful to you. In coma.; on wiih the they
have clung to the Civil CooStitution of the Clergy,
So far as it was praairable, and in coma on with
me they have admitted :the Cor-oentiod between
His Holiness Pius VII. and the French GOvern-
inent. But, possessing my eharafter, my princi,
ples,. and my opinions, they are, in' common with
me, inimical to the remit-I
-xi-on which: certain of
our Colleagnes have the imprOence and the.
tice tO".Proposef rcutliose whti.solicit from them ern.
ploymcnt.. I rejoice to think that to be
.associate 4
to your labours, they -need Only make the,same de-
claration which I have made to His Eminence the
Cardinal-Legate ,to wishfor mo.re, is not to wish
for Peace ; it is acting contrary to what was, told
04 by the First COnsul when we were presented to
him, and when our duties were So %Veil described
by him.

" I will Lakten, Venerable. flrotlicm, to comply
With \ your request. We have to,-procced in a very
difficult career.; We want, more than over; 'grace
from on high. lA*. us mutually aid' 1) other by
our prayers. I will remember you. ; your
charity is a sure guarantee that you wi*o prforra the
same part in. yours. I salute and bless you, a 9
esteem and hive you in Our Lord jemn

DoMINIQUE,
" Bishop of Anfrgo.itiainz.,"

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Dogrrmatts LACOMBE, BISHOP:OF ANGOULEMi,
TO THE,,ENER.A.BLE FATHEItsBANOS, FORMERLY
CANON OF ST. B ERTItAgD•

Paris, :times 4, apz.
" Venerable Father and Deaf Friend,

I have received your Letter of the 17th or
May : You -desire to know if his Eminence, the
Cardinal Cp.rRA4.l., has demanded of us the retrac-
tation of the Oath respeCting the Civil .Constitution
of the Clergy, and if the Constitmional
Bishops have made such retraaation: I answer,
cc yes," I answer, "No." It is very, true, that
M. le Legate wished us to make a retradation
and it is very trite; th;it rot obtain, it. We
presented ourselves to him on Thursday, to ,demand
the Institution prescribed by the new Concordat
he proposed to us to sign a Letter to his Holiness:
We immediately revolted at- it : we were Galliean
Bishops ; we were friends to our Maxims , and our
Liberties ; we were incapable- of doing it, and we
refused to sign. By whom was the rAusal made
first ?--By.- the -Consiitutionld Bishops of Rennes,
Dax,: and Clermont, -and afterwards by the Consti-
tutional Bishops of ,Rouen, Carcascion, and Bout--
dJaux. '[he latter, whom you know to be as firm
and imity,:ygnable as the "Rock on which stands tile
town of IVlontrejeau, his natiie place, thus addressed
his Eminence,: .;

4‘ M. le,Cartlipal, .we are. French Bishops—you appear.
not to-know us; • you prorse to us to declare to his FlUliness
that.we are.repeut3nt for,vnat we have done in conformity
to-.the Civil Constitution 'of the Clergy: never, no, never
shill this dc.hlaration•be.m.ide,by its. •
le Cardinal, if I cannot be seated in the See of
• Ang,culeme, except by adhering to that Letter which you
have 17,ven ;:re to sign, far be :"Jum me the Bishopric-of An-
gonleme ; far be from me your InStitution ; far be from roe
yoUr Letter, which I deliver back to you."

'" I rose when I pronounced these last words,
which, no doubt, meet your approbation, as well
as 'the following.-
" Being again seated, I continued as follows:

" M. le Cardinal, let me recall to von the Oath which
you have solemnly sworn before cur First Consul : in that
Oath you have.promised to respect tile Liberties
flout Church. W hat Ido you make it a duty t.) resp,!et those
Liberties, and d.l you retake it, at ti,- time, a crime in.
me.to have held and enjnyed these which they con-
fercod upon me? How do you reconcile your present cond.,.d
towards us, with the Ofith you have taken?

" le Cardinal, my faith is that of the Cath lic, Apes-
topc, and Roman cit. ch, I will attest it, it' it is Decoscs-

1-,y the sacrifice of my life. Nty moralitv and l`fi." ecm-
kiat.Qt"grit In be !tout reproach ; !mice our 'first el'onsUl
I,ts destined me tribe one of the'Sixr 'Bishops of the
-Chtireh of France, and ha.. honoured Me with that favour,
after having inquired respeclin7 my.iondiked of the Inhabit-
ants of La Cir,iiide, .my torniti Diocesans, is not that sutii-
-4,dent to obtain your Bull of Confirmation
" lit. le Cardinal, I have returned Voir your Letter, having
rmd only a small part of it : it is Kopec that I should know
the pentit me to look at it again." " NO," said
le Cardinal, " since you will not adhere to it." " So
inuAr the wurse,s? I cried, "that you .prevent me from read-
it from one end to the other ; above all, I regret much
what has riow taken plice in your Hall, for your own sake,
for that of my- two Colleagues, Beaulieu, an'Ai.: Belmas ;
I wish that the testimony of tethers as well as ourselves,
might sneak of what is caMained il, your Letter, and of Our
,courage in rejeaing it, I have the tiono4r,to salute you."
" At these words I departed, and ray -two Com- -
pinions, BEAut.tiu.,and B.ELatAs, followed me,;
We went together.to Citizen PORTALIS, tTieMini.
st(r for"Ecctesiastical and infOrtnett him
what had pasi.ed. He appeared to disapprove of
the pretensions of M. le Legate; he said that a
remedy should be immediately applied, that the
Government did not wish fora retraetation, but
that it would' only exact a pure and simple adhesion
to die Concordat. He requested that all the Con,:
stitution-al BiShops might immediately come to him.
Tie addressed himself at the same time to Bishop
BE R NUR, and -charged him to infOrm M. le Le.'
gate that the btAinesS of the Constitutional Bishops
niust be concluded immediately. Having consented
to take upon him the corrnissiou, lie prepared, and
proposed a letter, 'very different from the former;
we adopted it. I abstain from. transcribing it here,
as you .will fins it in the Annales de la Religion,
(tome .15, p. 92). •
" This letter, ,without offence to the Bishop BER-
nr En, the Author of it, might havebeen in better
I.atin, haiT said something more, and alsO some-
-thing iecs, if any of us had prepared it ; and if the
Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs had not told us,
that the phrase me constityfilnem sitaiunt civilem
cleri Gallicani ultra deterere, being exacted by the
Legate, must be, inserted for the sake of peace, and
that,if we refused, it .would not be, agreeable to
the Government. I obstinately refused to insert
the phrase, and strongly pleaded for its sUppression, •
Fitst, because it was useless, the succeeding phrase
d‘claring our adhesion to the Concordat • which
abrogated the Cie'il Constitution of the Clergy.
Secondly; because it might be ill inmpreted,
by. many who constantly insisted that the Con-
stitutional Bishops- and Priests ought to retract.
consenting at length 'to admit the phrase,
I declared that I did not abandon the Civil

Constitution of .the,-clergy, .but when a new Law
.rendered it impracticable ; that having xespeCled
and loved its.. dispositions, loshould always icon
tinne to respeet. and love thern, and that. so far
from blaming myself for having.Oeyed,;and for
having been' faithful to it, I regarded as the best
aCts of my life, and the most worthy of eternal
,reward, those which' it had prescribed to me, and
which I congratulated myself in having constantly
.perfotlned:
After all this my Colleagues LE Coz,
RINF, PRIER,I3R Br4UtIEII, and BELMAS
wrote ‘with myself the, Letter which we wished to
.adopt instead of thanwhich we had unanimously
rejc6led in the'presence of M. le Legate. It came
neither from Rome, nor the Bureau of his Eminence;
'it did .not.de-dare what 'he had ineffectually wished
an bout- before• to make us declare. Did M. le
Legate .receive it with- a good grace ? That is.
what we are left ignorant of; by him who trans-
mitted our Seven Copies.. The Bishop BERNIER ,
contented himself with telling us on the next day,
'that some words must be changed---tbat 'trom:iratus.
twist he inserted instead of "rietiris" "adthittere-er
eamimerum" " proffer; et pr ofessurunt,"' instead of
."
ado:list:rum 0.1)1-o:few:rum" conosikani instituti,
onem," instead of c‘ crinanic;:e institutionis Mle7lll.
. Such was our love for peace, such our condescension
to those who made us-such trifling propositions, that,
we made the desired alterations. Our number was
then increased by the Constitutional REYMOND, •
who had not hitherto joined us : he Wrote, on. his'
_part, at the.same time with each of us, the second
Letter in question. Our transcription being finish-,
-ed, we deposited our eight Copies in :the hands
of the Bishop BERNIE R., He announced to us,
that we should' without delay receive our MI of
Corrfirmation.: he added, that in case it was not
expedited before Easter-day,. We must • notwith_
standing on that. 'day take the 'Oath of Fidelity
before the FIRST CONSUI, in the' Church of '
Notre 'D'izyne. We in fart took the Oath with..,

out any Bull, and were called upon to take it
in the order according to the. .year our Conse_

cration, that is to say, after the . Bishops of the

Anc;en 1 Rigime, and before those newly appointed,
instituted, and consecrated ; and the validity of
ou•r consecration was not disputed, although so'
trinch has been said for ten years past against our
Episcopare.
" Nov, Venerable Priest, and my dear friend.
ErNos, if any one dare tosay to yoU that we have

tetratled, do not be afriiid of telling them that it

is a most impudent falsehood : my statement au-
-thorizes you to express yourself in that manngr.
I hove related to you the precise truth, as may be
certified to you, not only by my Constitutional
Colleagues, but also by the Bishop BERNIER and

by Citizen PORTAL'S, who have seen and heard all

that.l have-related.

" Yucl chay perhaps be told, that M le Legate
has givtii us absolution, and that' the proof of it Is in

the Registers of his Legation ; that thereinay-be seen
with respea to the new Bishop of Versailies, and

some others, several examples of a decreturz absolu.

tionzr, humbly demanded by many of us, and to many
of 'us charitatlly,grant,ed. How will you repel these
facts ? ..YOu may say with•me, that M. le Legate, in
CAMteMpt :of the accustomed rules in the admini.

.titration. of the Sacrament of Penitence, in contempt
of those celebrated words of an infinity of Popes,
Iris; qiertl contriti; ft confessis, li,s.given an absolu-
tion which was neither wished for nor requested,'

that when tht dc-rietum was transmitted -by the
gist,op BE.RNFER to some amongst -urs.„,.they did
ustice to. it i)y 'throwing it into the fire, in-the
presence of him from whom they had received it,

before theeyes of Citizen PORTAL is,.7who Assured

ui he _had dorle the•.satne :when Legate,