The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-01 00:00:00

General A.:lntßmATr, Comm:oder in Chief o
the Helve& Troops, employed against the Lesser
Cantons, has established his Head-Quarters at La.
cerne. Subordinate Corps are stationed near Zzi.
rich, and in other places. The general instruEtions
of the Gover'nment are, that all means of concilia.
tion are to be epploye,;l in the first instance.

. _
, The latest accounts froM Sch thitz and Stanz are
replete with details of fresh insurrections. In these
REDING is particularly active; and he entirely
guides the Central Committee at Sch'witz. The
Canton of Glaris is closely connected with it ; but
Uri does not *seem so cordial. The malcontents,
however, in most places are strongly opposed by
the persons of property 'who remain attached to:the.
present order of things.
RERNE, AUGUST zr.—The Amnesty relative.ta..
the political events in the _pays de laud, was pub-
lished yesterday. All proaecutions relative there.
to hale been suspended. The 'sentence of death
pronounced against 'RAYMOND and MARCEL is.
commuted-for perpetual banishment, and against
An,ebriuee6eGnsc.uo4pnap.d_lrleeemsTvsiteliaei
ietd:e
alleviated.
irons,
The:
the others fur a ten years transportation. Thn
judgmento
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pr eAct to
la oi,
:mi (prof
irNfbi those.suoFnnalml oeLiltvs,Lh has
Klrio and
QUEEN of SWEDEN have made their third visit to
those pasts, and each time they were received
with increased pleasure. Their Majesties came
here on account of the proposed interview be-
tween the two Sisters, our QuEert and the Eat.,
PRESS Of RUSSIA. TMs as i.
e.' in their Private Correspondence, and in' which
their Husbands did not seem to wish to disappoint
them ; but unaccountably the Interview has rot yet
taken place.----Various conjedures have been made
on the circumstance, and some even suppose that it
has been done merely to afford matter for specula..
tion to those who imagine that Sovereigns never
come together but for some great political purpose.
HoWever, the fad is, that the Queen has left the
King at liehiirgfors, and has retort l" to A4,berflrs,
where the two Royal' Sisters are-shortly expected ;
the Empress anti the young. Princess of BADEN,
whom their Mother brought to Petersbnigh.—Hee
Majesty the Queen was accompanied by the Baron
de Bounr, who has recently returned from P..tis,
whither he was sent on a secret mission by hi, Ma-
jesty.--=The interview of the sisters will be in.
terestiog. :

Between the Bth and t Bth of August, 35 Packet
Boats entered the Port of Calais, hilving on board
798 Passengers; and 33 quitted the POrt,' With sot
Passengers;
The Butrultoti OFkustr A has purchased for 28,000
rubles, the Physical and 'Astronomical Cabinet, of
the Count de BUFf E wrz, and presented it to the
Academy of Medicine, Petersburgh.

A. great crowd of persons having, assembled, op
the first of August, at the Church of Assize, near
Rome, to celebrate the Fête. of Saillte Maria des
Anger, one of the assistants in the ceremony tell
down the steps of the Church ; a number of
others falling, upon him, it occasioned so much
fright and disorder amongst the crowd, that two
'men and two women were stißfti, and a great num-.
ber of persons wounded and bruised, of whom scruo
ate since dead of the hurts they received.

• A little Dramatic Piece, written by Citizen Dr.
WAL,-was.played at Malmaison on the isth of Aa-
gust, before the FittsT,CoNsur.,, in which Madame
LOUIS BONATARTi took a part, although in the
seventh month 6f her pregnancy, anti after the per'
formance-danced several country-dancec.

Citizen Gu'rrort, a Member of the French lit'
tional Institute, and Direttor of the l).lvtechil°
School, read in the Sitting of the Institure of the
2.c.th Dlt.'a Memoir, entitled " Rech,rchrs
pile ele#ripe de bolta, by Citizens IdAO H r. aria
DESOMES; Professors of the Wytechnic School.
This Menioir discloses two y y important fact
which tend to throw a great light on the theory c 4.
Elearicity. The first is, that an isolated EleCtri'f
Pile, is an inexhaustible source of Elear.icitv, aad
the second, that several solid and dry sulistances,
such as Starch, are capable of replacing the 11.!iniJ
substance of the Elearie Piles of bolta. Froffi
this discovery results a method of construaiog
Piles, affording.a constant and almost unalterable
source of the Eleetric Fluid.

In the night between the z3d and z4th ult. afire
broke out in one of the buildings attached to the
Powder-mills of Essonni, at Paris. The neigt
pouring inhabitants were in consequence' mucP
alarthed, and hurried fmm the spot with the great'
est precipitation. No material injury however,
,
ensued, the building in which the
.fire broke o'3;
being the repository for charcoal, and separate'
from the' other buildings by a wall, and the fir°
being soon extinguished. No other cause is a'
signed for this than the extreme heat of the cv°'
titer; which iksupposed 'to have set tire to the char'
coal. •
tto
. On the r4th of August, was executed at SO 6
munchen near Augsburgh, a woman, aged 38, vvll°,so
crime is of a nature calculated to fix the attenOof
of those who study mankind. Between the istilis
January 1798, and the zd of November 180 t, 'Po
woman set fire to the town of Swabmunchen,s.fifte e
tiMes, • in consequence of which, fifty hotises becOro
a prey to the flames, and a great number of persnoo
Were reduced •to poverty. Several individuals' 3t
whom suspicion fell, were sent to prison,
length happily for them, the real Criminal was `it,
covered by a labourer,. who caught her in the
Her name is Maria Frankin; after seven oornll,;ij.
tions, ire which she denied the crime, she, at
on the eighth, confessed her guilt, and p.613,,T,ie1l
her justification, that from her youth, she bad
tormented by a violent penchant; to set house: e+
fire, that,she had resisted this desire for,a long
but at length overdoitie by her passion, she d
burnt the houses alluded to, without- any en to
view, and without any remorse. This I,vorn.a''rest
other respects, had conduaed herself with
.g het
propriety, and did not appear to be deranged I
mind. Sive was beheaded, and her botiy burnt. sg
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A slight shock of an Earthquake vast, ter,
Rochelle on the x 7th tilt....accuriyawed. by aAu
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