The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-10 00:00:00

PARIS, Sur. 7.

MINISTRY OF THE MARINE.
IstAND O MARTINIQUE.
CHARLES HENRI RiR.TIN, COUNSELLOR OF ESTATE OF
THk: FRENCH REPUPLIC, COLONIAL PRIErCT OF MAR-
TIN/Q:lr AND ITS DEPIFIDENCIrS, TO THE MINISTER
OF THE MAP. NE AND COLONIES.
" Sail! Pierre, 74 Ts, 28m

" I have the -ionour to transmit to you annexed, Citizen
Minister, a Duplicate of the Letter which I. addressed to
you on the gth inst . and sent by a Packet-boat which was
then immediatoly getting under sail foi London, by which
was prevented from giving those lengthened details which I
wished.

" I proceeded to St. Pierre with the Civil and Military
Officers, on the 74th inst. to meet Major—General Kr.rrzx.,
Governor of the Colony for HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY.—
As soon as the Corvette le Berceau, in which I sailed, was
perceived in the Road, the French Flag was saluted by a
discharge of fifteen pieces of Cannon from the Forts, to which
I returned an equal salute ; the Forts then fired a second
discharge, which the Corvette returned as boon as she ha 4
cast anchor. I landed soon alter-wards, under a discharge of
artillery.—The whole of the shore was covered by an
immense crowd of the Inhabitants and People of Colour.—
The English Officers and a Detachment of their Troops,
waited to escort me to the Government-house. The Agent
of Government was received with acclammations and shouts
of joy, which proved the pleasure experienced by the Inha-
bitants at the return of the French.

" Nothing could be added to the distinguished fraril: and
cordial manner with which was received by M. KErPsz.
I found in him the best intentions, and the most marked
eagerness to second the views of his Government, in deliver.
ing up the Colony with the greast order and the utmost
promptitude.
" After these dispositions, I expedited on the next day the
Corvette le 4erceau to Guadaloupe, whither the Adjutant
Commandant REWBEL proceeded with Dispatches from me
to the Captain-General RZCFtEPAtteE. I address also to you,
those which I transmitted to him.

" Three Merchant Vessels, of which two were from Bout-
deaux, and the third from Marseilles, have arrived here. I
obtained permission from General KErpst., that they, as
well as those which should come here in future, should be
admitted to discharge and sell their Cargoes in all the Ports of
the Colony.
" As to the English Vessels, they will have no duties to
pay."

" The declarations of the Captains will be received .by a
French Agent, in order to discharge the acquit: 4 caution
which they have brought from France, when they leave the
Island, which cannot be before the epoch when the French
Flag will be flying in the Colony.
" I continue to occupy myself with the means of procur-'
ing for the Barracks and Hospitals left to us by the English,
all those indispensable necessaries for our Troops, with
which those Establishments are wholly unprovided. The
expellee will of course be considerable, ,but it is necessary.
" The Officers of Engineers rind Artillery are occupied at
present with the inspeaion of the Forts and Military Esta.
blishments. 1 shall send you an account the first opportu-
nity, of the result of these operations.
" I have the Honour to salute you,

" BERTIN.,!

RATISBON, Atro. 27.—The following Declara-
tion was transmitted to the Diet, at its last Sitting
EXTRACT FROM THE AULIC RESCRIPT RECEIVED
BY THE ELECTORALSUB-DELEGATE OF BOHE-
MIA, THE 20TH OF AUGUST.

" His Imperial and Royal Majesty having been
informed, by the Imperial Court of Russia only, of
the contents of the Declaration which that Court
and the French Government intend to transmit to
the Extraordinary Deputation, convoked for the
purpose of regulating the objects which have been
mArked out by the Treaty of Peace of the Empire,
His Majesty does not delay a moment to give to
the Sub.dciegate of Bohemia those instrudions,
which in this unforeseen case he judges most ad-
visable, in conformity with his constant solicitude
for the good of the Empire.
It cannot be a matter of reproach to His Im-
perial Majesty, or the Germanic Body, that the
assembling of the Extraordinary Deputation of the
Empire has been delayed. More than nine months
have passed since the nomination of that Deputation
was notified, on the part of His Imperial Majesty
and the Empire, to the French Government, which
was invited to send its Plenipotentiaries, and to
manifest its opinion as to the Epoch most suitable
for the Deputation to assemble. So far from hav-
ing done this, the French Government has never
given any satisfadory answer upon the subjetl.
" The Ambassador of His Imperial and Royal
Majesty could not obtain from the French Govern-
ment its consent to enter into a preparatory nego-
tiation with the Imperial court, which it had pro-
mised, both before and after the nomination of the
Extraordinary Deputation of the Empire. On the
contrary, they always answered in an evasive and
dilatory manner, to the repeated requests made ver-
bally and in writin, on the Imperial and Royal
Court.

" As to thenew Negotiation proposed at the
end of the last • year by His Majesty the Emperor
of Russia, to take place at Paris, His Majesty ac.ceded in the most amicable manner to that proposi-
tion, but notwithstanding that, his Ambassador was
not called upon to take a part in that Negotiation,
nor was he informed in any manner of its progress
or its result.

" In such a state of things, His Majesty thinks
that the greater or less delly in the assembling of
the Deputation of the Empire cannot be a well_
founded motive for restraining the right which the
Emperor and the Empire, as principal Contrading
Parties to the Peace of L.,neville formally reserved
to themselves to discuss and regulate the business
of the Indemnities, as well as other objeds neces-
sary to the fulfilment of that Treaty of Peace.
" His
,Majesty is, on the contrary, perfelly as-
sured, that the two Powers alluded to having a just
regard to the inviolable rights of an Independent
State, such as the Germanic Body, will not set at
nought, in their pradiee, that first and principal
attribute of Independence.
In order to shew how far. His Majesty is
founded in relying on the justice of the two Powers,(
be publishes to the Empire a consolatory det#ra.

tion, which MS presented t 4 his Ambassador at
Paris as an official assurance, by M, T4LLEfRA:To,
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, which assurance
is couched in these words : You may rest assured,
that we bave concluded with Russia, only upon such
propositions as are to be made to you. That which
we submit to the deliberation of the Diet, can-
not be called a plan, it is merely a .Projet,
but which appears to us the most likely to give
general satisfaction. It shall be proposed, on our
part, simply in the way of advice, and not with
a tone of authority, nor with the least appearance of
our wish to force its adoption.'
" He is confirmed, therefore, by this, that when
even these Powers may deem their counsels and
friendly interference necessary for the arrangement
of such a complicated business ; they do not, there..
fore, in any wise, intend to dispute the power and
right of the Germanic Empire, to regulate by itself
the claims to Indemnities, as well as so many other
points which nearly concern its constitution, and
on which depend its welfare or its decline.

" In this assurance His Majesty charges his
Electoral Sub-delegate of Bohemia to interfere as
far as he is competent, in order that the Extraor.
dinary Deputation already assembled, open without
delay, its Sittings in the constitutional form ; that
it enter into a Negotiation conformable to Treaties
with -the French Plenipotentiary, and with the in_
.teryention and co-operation of the Minister of Rtis,
sia ; and ihat it declare to these two Plenipotenti-
aries, in the name of the Empire, the confidence
which the Germanic Body has in the equitable views
of the two Powers, adding thereunto the assurance
that the Deputation will take their friendly propo„
sitions into serious consideration. The Electoral
Sub,.delegate of Bohemia is also charged to cornmut
nicate those sentiments of His Majesty to the Pie-
nipotentiaries of France and gu.;sia, adding that
though, according to the Law of Nations, and alsq
according to the Laws of the Empire? the Deputal,
tion cannot be restrained even by the Head of the
Empire, within a peremptory term, yet, that His
Majesty, in his quali,y- of King and EleCtor of 13p-
hemia, will 'accelerate, as much as possilJle, the ter-
mination of the points which are to constitute the
completion of the Peace."

A notice has been stuck up in the Haymarket
green-Room, f‘ That all the Performers are to hold
themselves discharged, excepting only such as can
be in readiness to join tl?e Company on the zsti! of
May next."

Mr. SHEi:IDAN is in town superintending the
alterations in Drury_Lane Theatre. If he would
have the resolution to write a new Play, he might:
have the satisfadion of seeing it full every night.
Mr. WROUCHTON has been mentioned 3s the
future Manager of Drury-Lane Theatre. He is ca.:
tainly vfell qualified for the undertaking; but we
have not heard that any thing decisive has a4tually
taken place.
Many of the most attraaive Plays last seaNn q;
Drury-Lane Theatre, must necessarily be laid aside
for some months, on account of the absence of DlLti.
KEMBLE.

D w Y E a at Drury-Lane, and Miss MARR.torr at
Covent-Garden, are expeded to be the great Comic
Attraraions of the ensuing Season. As to the ta-.
lents of the Lady we cannot presume to judge, but
DwyER made so favourable an impression on the
Town in Belcour, that we may reasonably expect
to see him take the lead in genteel and spirited
Comedy.
Mrs. BILLINcYott is at present at Gloucester?
where the triennial Meeting of the Three Choirs is
held, from whence she proceeds to Norwich to atr
tend the Festival, which although so near the Elec-
tion, is patroni;ed by both parties, who are der
termined to he in harmony during her stay.
Signor C4ESCENTINI, who is said to belong co
an order of Singers at present in general disreputet
is, we believe, engaged at the Opera-House for the
ensuing Season, with the liberty of performing
occasioNally at the Pic Nic Theatre.
The arts of Reading and Writing have WNW
been dignified in the French Journals by the hish.!
sounding titles of Aglavlozy and Ok;graphy.
We had occasion some time ago ro mentign the
cLreumstance of an infant having been stolen
work-house in the City. On Wednesday a case of
the same kind came on to be heard at'the poli9
Office, Hatton Garden.—A woman in the dress of
a femaie Quaker, it appeared, went to the house
of James Hilton, a shoemaker, residing in the neigh-
bourhood of Saffron-hill. By pretending to be a per-
son who came to afford lying-in-women relief, and
by giving a few presents of small value, she contrived
to get hold of an infant, of whom Hilton's wife hact
been delivered a very few days. She requested
permission to spew it to a neighbour, which, hav7
ing obtained, she disappeared, and has not since
been heard of. A woman in the neighbourhood,
who had introduced this miscreant, underwent an
examination on the subject. She denied knowing
any thing of her intention ; but strong suspicion
existing against her, she was detained for a further
examination. This is an offence of most serious
atrocity, and we trust that such an instance will-
operate as a useful caution to all mothers, to be‘,Vare
of enstrusting their infant children to strangers.
The heavy Liverpool coach, on its way to Lon-.
don on Tuesday, was overturned near the Obser-
vatory, a quarter of a mile from Oxford, by which
accident the coachman and several passengers were.
hurt.

On Monday se'nnight, five men employel in the
coal pits at Atherton, in Lancashire, were duly
convided before the Magistrates, at the Sessions ill
Boulton, of having entered into a combination to
obtain from their'employers an advance of wages;
for which offence two of them were committed- to
the Castle of Lancaster for three months, and the
other three to the House of Corredion at Preston,
for two months.
Thursday two Shearmen were conviled before
the Sitting Magistrates at Warminster ; one for.
endeavouring to intimidate and withdraw a work-
man from ins Master's employ, and the other foC
distributing weekly pay to the refralory Shearment
from a fund colleted amongst their body for [ha;
purpose. The night following two tenements ant?
a stable, the property of a Clothier of Warminster
rite destroyed by fire,

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• CN Tuesday last Her Royal Highness tlie
cEss of WALES,. attended by Mrs. and Miss FiTZ-
C!RALD, and :`vlkS HAMMOND, partook of •a very
elegant Entertainment given by Lord EARDLEY,
at his seat, Belvidere, near Erith, where
they arrived about four o'clock. His Lordship's
hospitality is.too well known' to peed any com-
ments, as there was nothing wanting to make it one
of the most elegant of the kind ever given.
At about half past seven the company resorted to
Ballroom, where dancing commenced. ,Her
~yar 'Highness called- Sir David Iluliter Blair,
With Mr. CULLEN SMITIi • (Lord EARDLEY's son-
In-law), when about nine couple followed. About
ten they adjourned to dinner, which consisted of
*every delicacy that can be imagined, and variety
of wines, ices,. pines, &c. At two Her Royal
Highness got up flom,table, and dancing instantly
re-commenced, and was kept up without interims_
sign till half past five, when Her Royal Highness
.4tlci attendants retired.

The Company immediately after rock their •
leave, all much gratified and delighted with the pt_
tention they received from their Right
Mrs. Cut,_
-able Host, and his charming Daughter, c
LEN SMlTH.—=Amongst the Company present were,
' Lady Hester Stanhope, three Miss Croftons, Hon. Miss
Cholsnondeley, Mrs. Maddocks, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer
Smith, Mrs. Childers, Hon. Mr;Murray, Sir Willoughby
.Aston, Sir John Douglas, Gen. Pattison, Gen. Lloyd, Col.
,Macicod, Capt. Onslow, Capt. Hughes, Capt. jenkinson,
Capt. Fitzgerald, Mr. fact:son, &c. &c. &c.

, . The excellent band'of the Royal Artillery attend-
ed on the occasion, and played many delightful pieces
of Music.

Her Royal Highness was escorted home to her seat
on Blackheath by a party of the Royal Horse Artille-
ry, who were seta to Belvidere for that purpose.

Tut: favourable appearance of the weather drew
from an 'immense distance, thousands of apettators to
witness the thirtieth ascension of Garnerin, froiti
Sydney-Gardens, Bath. He entered the car wall Mr.
Glasfurd (who had accompanied him. from Vauxhall),and gave them a most unexpeded treat,.by an aerial
xeursioli along the centre walk of the garden, and', re-
6unling i,i. originar station, ,he twice Made, the circle
of the rotunda; saluting the
_Company, who appear-
ed anxiously interested for him. About half after
five he rose with a gentle breeze from the N. E.
amidst the acclamations of thousands of spectators,
v/hOse admirations were reechoed by millions
crowding tile neighbouring hills. Upon his ascent
he•barometer was 3o deg.. and the thermotheter
41flo.
-Mons. Garnerin and Mr. Glasfuril were enjoy_
ing the pleasures of their situation, when at so
minutes past five they were affected by the cold,
and.observed the thermometer at sz, a difference
of to deg. since they had left the-ground. The
barometer was sunk to 36, which gave an elevation
of 3.4.z0 teet. At this height an immense horizon
presented itself to their view, which enclosed a most
delightful country in miniature ; on the right of
Which they distinctly perceived the sea, in which
the setting sun refleeted it's beams as frorn an. im,
.rnense-looking-glass, After being enraptured with
the sublimity of this scene, till twelve minutes past
Six, they experienced a still greater degree of cold,
the thermometer having sunk to 46, which made an
alteration of 16 deg. in the temperature. The
barometer had risen but one-tenth, which -indicated
that they•had only neared the earth 76 feet. Mons.
Garnerin ascribed this intense degree of cold to a
thick d..rle cloud which floated. over the Balloon,
which Mr. Glasfurd was desirous to pass, but -was
apposed by M sus. Garnerin, who, thinking it was
eleCtric, did not approve to risk the danger, and
meet the fate of Icarus. They nevertheless ap-
proached it in some degree, when the thermometer
teinailled the same) but the barometer fell zsi.
ittOies, which gave the height of 36z0 feat

In this Situation the inflammable air was, corisi.
.derably dilated, and the Balloon swelled in propor-
tion. They were involved in vapour, and in this
%ituatinli the thermometer sunk 3 deg. and stood at
43; the barometer-had sunk 24.4, and gave an ad-
.dition of 87+ feet to their former elevation. They
Were in the heart of a cloud, which M. Garnerin
thought to be highly charged with ele6tric matter,
the Balloon being completely dilated, seemed to in-
dicate that the least greater elevation would have
:occasioned it to burst, by the.rarefadion of the at-
. mosphere 3 and finding the necessity of being dis_
engaged from this situation, he opened. one of the
invver appendages, which aling expeditiously, in
•concert with the upper valve, at 40 min. past 6, the
thermometer sunk to 4.1 f but the barometer rose
261. M. Garnerin estimated the thickness of the
Cloud at 1031 feet :--from the observation of. the
thermometer it should appear, .that its base was
much more conden3ed than the upper part, for the
cold was so severe as to oblige them to wrap them-
selves in their great-coats, as the thermometer was.
within 4. deg. of the freezing point. At 5z minutes
after 6 the thermometer rose to 46, and the baro-
meter sunk to zg, when they judged themselves at
-87+ feet front the earth.

- M. Garnerin now proposed to Mr. Glasfard to
'aEght in a meadow which he perceived as eligible
..tr) the occasion, when he said, " Non, nom, ascend-
wzs bee' haul coiripliance with which Mr. Gar-
nerin immediately threw out twenty pounds of 'bal-
last, and ascended with extreme rapidity; in a spi-
ral line. At 50 min. after six they had .passed
through several clouds, the thermometer falling to
40, and the barometer to 24,: ; having surmounted
them all they were cheered by the rays of the set-
ring Sun. At 59 min. past six they found the
'thermometer had fallen to 36, and the barometer to
,2.3, 1, which leaves the' estimated. height at 5420
feet, The inflammable air having considerably
'dilated, M. Garnerin prepared to descend, which he
FfKtled at 20 minutes past seven, and was greeted
by the most friendly assistance and welcome, of a
concourse of people, who were anxiously
xvatting his arrival, when he alighted in a field near
delis Park, the seat of Thomasliorner, Esq. distant .
i 6 miles from Bath.

kßl.,'SrOlvr JUBILEE •GUIXD, SEOt:

YESTERDAY morning we were Called forth to join
" in sweetest harmony," in attending the performance
of that truly sublime composition the Sacred'Orato_
rio of the Messiah, at the Chtireh. HI LL opened it,
and got through the different airs allotted to him
toleriibly well, considering this was his first attempt
in thi3 kind of musics Mrs. ATxt NS Was very tespeCt-
able in the songs she sung. We never heatd Mad.
Doss EK to better advantage in Sacred Mustc-,-riarticu-
lady in her cadence at t'he crose of "Rejoice Greatly."
In the truly solemn• air of " I know that Lily Re-
deemer ii verb," she ecitedthe greAtest'admiration.
Mr. MEREDITH, of Liverpool, supported the hiss
songs in his usual style of excellence. The rest: of
the airs were given by Mr. HOLDEN and Miss
TRAMS, of this Coon' y. The Band was very ably ,
led by Mr. YANIEWIcz,.of Liverpobl, who has
considerably improved in his leading of -Handel's
Music. Mr. WEBBE, the son of the celebrated
'Composer. of Glees of that name, very ably presided
at the Organ.
In the evening the Ladiei; to thd number Of .he-
tween seven and eight hundred, assembled in ,the
Guild-Hall. Soon after nine o'clock the country
dances commenced. They were led by the
.MAYOR
And JERNI;qquAm, and they•did not_break up
till past four this. morning.
The Birth. Day was acted at the Theatre. Mutt'_
DEN was excellent. in the old Captain. CRISP
made a good Jack jitnk.----Catherine and Petra-
chi., followed ; Petruchio by Mr. SIDDONS: Mrs.
H. Stnnorrs was Catherine, but it %vas out of her
line of aEting.