The Sun.
London, England, 1805-02-01 00:00:00

FROMtHE FRENCII AND Dutch' PAPERS.

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.mils, lAN. 20.-41 division of the Grenadiers
and Chasseurs of -the Imperial Body Guard has
marched .to. Lynns ; from thence they will proceed
to, Milan, whither a detachment from the corps of
Mamehikes is already gone.
The,.last advice% from Guadeloupe and Marti.
nique,"of the 9,1) of November, state the arrival of the Frigates La Ville de Milan, and Le PrefiiPnt,
with ammunition and provisions ; and that both
Islands were, in consequenee Of such arrivals, in the
ben state of defence.
The Pope has caught a slight cold, which con.
fines him to his apartments.
Letters from Cadiz, of Dec. 23, meotion e ar- rival in that Port, of the Frigate,Ler Vegaria,th
from
Monte Viden, with a rich cargo. Several. Ships,
which the English had sept into Gibraltar, have
availed thernsilves of the late storm, cut their
tables, and escaped to 'Algeziras as did a French
Corvette, the crew of which, after killing an OfEi,er
and ten or twelve Searnen of the Enemy, got off With. sixty Englishmen on hoard, and was carried
into Algeziras by three Spanish Gun-hoats.• - There is no inland 'intelligence of importance ;
lint our Papeis of the 20th give dome foreign in.
telligence which desers'es attention, especially if it
thotild prove true. It is as follows:
"Letters from Vienna, dated Jan. 5, mention,
diet a report was current there, that the' Griind
arigninr, who was perteElly ignorant of the passage
of the Russians to the Mediterfanean, required an
account or that occurrence, with every particular ;
‘Vhich heingcommuniclvd to him, he flew into Such
4 vi+nt passion, that he had the Grand Vizier's
1;:ad "'mit. off, chanaed a part of his Ministry, end
4:Ajhe "Vicieratisfaiiion to General Brune,theFrenth
—mvaslador to his iiishilm,)* It is evident, Iti,w_
ever' that news of such importance requires
the
strongest confirtnation.
i Annther report is also related in our Papers; it
'ot.ltaineii in an article, dated Vienna, Jan. 2,
Ij''.4'. 4'
'Pk' English Minister,'Mr.PAc ET, on being
,'''lliCoulet CoatelTzt4.l, last night, testified to the
lint his astonislintent that, in the audience given
vY die
!'e.Coutt in the morning, the Foreign Ministers
the
'l.,' nut received in the Emperor's Cabinet; whilst
;6%7 Councillor's enjoyed that distinetton. He
,""i'lained bitterly. Th Vice-Chapcyllut -replied,
i"eiat cotes (lid nor pantie .it, and he wondered
• I.' PlLues should make such observations ar that
VHirill whet; the same etiquette had been constahtly
"ived 'hy the enurt ever since he had been at
L.lenna, an. ',is. pricer got warm; he fitamPed with'
tlll,' Ift6tt and told Count Cons ttintri., ,•tit'tt if he
"e Couiti) did not know his duty, he *.vould know
4()W t 4 tench 11141 ; and presently' quitted the A.
oenthlYt With every appearance of madness.. This
eft.urtences which WriS witnessed by many Members
b 'the Corps D;j64,na1if,,,,, and oilier Courtiers, is
tut the talk. ot.• all Vienna, and every body is
arl-'l,itYd,itt the tone assumed by the British Envoy
-4 lle -tc,sio„ s,
~. Tile ,
. "'"tetit o 1 troops from this capital,
tnipern,,
.and our
-- ". In ended journey to Italy (which, how.
vet, i
epee c.',"ut yet officially known), furnish matter for
siiillal"'n. The hest informed persons, however,
aeo 'blinks that.there will he no.Vtrar onsthe Conti.
hilit:"ch R"ssia• much less that there is.any possia
Poii. :cit. a dispute with Austria. Nay, many,
givini;acits.tipe.4c rather of a general Peace, %abaci),
tllep i. • 's Anton to all the Powers, would restore
i
an „ Political Balance of Europe. ' The plan of sac t
"gteentent isascribedthe-Elator Arch-Chan-
cellor.
AN
tithe i2l--"Ve are informed that the Emperor
the B “"eli has written a very 'flattering letter to
denary
'sed:tlv_lau Government, respeeting 'the Extraor_ ,
nati:on on they- sent to assist at the Coro.
ati..,
Ever .
we si.IY thing concurs to render it probable the;
his in.:, 1 a,u,,nnihe able -to announce the accession o
of I:Perim Highness; Prince JosP pH, to the throne-
tail! Loin Highness;
The Emperor's jnoieey to 'ltaly
,Thont we are informed, be contteeted with that new
ter a!ellY.- It' is added, that the arrangements ne.
dellaiii)l r"Vired by that event will, undoubtedly
' be aY, for a while,- the settlement which remains to
antreTP.lered relative to the political situation of
1-104„,.. ne.'ghbouring State.- It is said, that his
Cor,-;"1 wills on his ream to Rome, perform the
Tl:ation of the nevi King of:Lombardy.
~k,ie'S per cent, corr./ides tire at s 8 fr. 15 cent.
Alva'
Niaie C'it'Go JAN. 17.—Yestardily Their Swedish
lief: "'es left this place, and crossed the Great
teed
e,`Without any accident. They afterwardi pro.
for fil,,':nn their journey, by the way of Rotschild,-
ttors'ne". The Danish Adjutant-General LlND-
wail
nil Met the KING just as lie left this•citY, and
et,
nt.st graciously received* by His Majesty.
14'414 I,Yrot.Tte, who was likewise coming to meet
to 110"1111 the Danish Court.equipage, was obliged
Pat Corsoer, on account of the ice.
s
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t;esabt •z' s Jett. 10.—General Count BELL:it.,
the tn.. if alipointed our Ambassador to Franceh.id
Chet'
Count Coe It NTZEL.
bee4lCY Write from Constantinople, ender date if'
ashiei,4, that the troops assembled at SebaritopOl,
onry" were supposed to be destined for Carlo, have
torr,P;4ediY. received orders to*defer thOr. . del'At-
two 1,4 an unlimited time. In the preceding month,
had ‘.llssil!n Shipi, with Troops (tom Sebestopol,
r sailed ro u. ..
dActi.
r Ingfella.
rht 18,h :' JAN. 24.-Letterm.from Hamburgh, of
ale re I Iliaang, state, that England- and France
p._
,Purted to' have accepted the mediation of
ialist ; hut chit the Negotiation
ve ver
b bl
would pro a y
i r protra6efl, Abr. "......13y• ~,.,4 '``Private lettersfrom Mentz, of the 19th
bp of tile ethat there was much talk of the breaking
Vamp of Boulogne, &c.

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HOLLAND.
:ludY:. In the Sieret Assembly of thf..Batavian Legislative
) held on the zist ult. in consequence of the
e-4tra6rdinary Perition sent up from this State.Direc"
"IY, 4rid the ) I d b the same, for con.
kttitit ' 1 14P"4 rna
° • • in re.
) in order to cover the deficiency the
vcriti,
t's\ga ' to a third iNtalment of the extraordinsry
„,"6,,"1i" n_ property and income for
intll,\-1114:0 VAN Hassec-r delivered thefollow.
it. 41'444' :----" From the Report of the Cbmmittee
diVears, thitt thig Aucuibly, having found the

nullity of their resistance, trattt.eunsent.tee, the
rinr proptisals Of • 11. e Slate pirectory, requitiog
(without adverting to the rettiotoktraoi:e they,liave
teturned). our consent to the raising
,of one per.ceot,
on the national property, by granting, pr9vi,i
for the term of tit? ce monifis—uron account of tht.
probable defiejelley in the'l46ls. lo,ppoflorios grant.'d
for sundry items'; and also, on accc,not of toe s.anie
deficiency--rur consent to a thit4 instalment of the
extraordinary cositrihuti,o for the year t 80¢ ; and;
in order to comfcl us thereto, I, hear reasons al.
!edged which appear to be suggested by the most
extreme necessity—a stagnation in every depart.
ment of Government and of 'AilMinistration, an.
Insurrection of the. Atmy • and Navy, a general
bankruptcy, and, moreover, the displeasure of our
High Ally,:
" I do not doubt, far a moment, but the Com-
mittee of this Assenibli for Financi tl Affairs is
convioced, after many deliberations and conic.
fences, of. the urgent necessity, and of the danger
of our dreadful perplexity. I do not.eVen doubt,
;for a Moment, but a complete anarchy, introduced
constitutionally in 18o1•, places: the State now at
the point of entire annihilation ,; and I am 'very
certain, that, without the disinterested zeal and
c,,,operation of individuals (true lovers' of Our
country), all exertions_ to save would have been
fruitless long since.
" Thus, in order to defer that ruin, so long pre,'
vented, alas ! for three monthS longer, are we under
the deplorable necessity of declaring to the Batavian
peoi'le, that the State is lost, unless they give-op
provisionally, for three months, one per cent. of the
value of their property ; that, all maturely coo-
sideredand pondered, there retnaios nothing else,
no other mean,S than to repeat this expedient over
and over again ; and while we give them to under.'
stand pretty plainly, that all this is to be ascribedv,
to our connexion with France, through which we
are involved in colon and so expensive a wat, by
which we are obliged to fulfil the most extravagant
engageMents. •

. Sensibly aireiled by the disrhil, state of our
country, and the fate of a nation; whizh appears
to have freely made (but, alas ! vain) such tin.
precedented sacrifices for the acquirement and lire_
serration of its Liberty and Independence, 'for no
other purpose, than to purchase, at the expence of
such treasures, its, entire destruction and erasure
from the list of PoWers find myself
,before
.1 give my vote, in a case where another
great sacrifice is again 'demanded from that nation,
to ask, -whether the grounds for it do actually
exist,?. Whether ‘vt: can in conscience declare, that
it is impossible lot us to save the country by other
Means ? and still' further, Whettier we, as honest
men, can ascribe this solely to the consequences of
opr conticxlon with France ?

State Directory, however, to perSuade.us
to grant, tor a period of Ciree. mooth,, a consider.
able extension of the exigencirs the State t.)r the
present year, and .to be el•abled toode-cree
clonally a 'third instalment of the extriotilinaik Con.
tributton fur 1804.„tOprOvide for the def..wielicv, say',
in their letter of .the 7th ins,ant, whle4 is insulting
to this Assembly,. tit there remains no choice (or
them, bur either ,
e.ngagerrients nltered iota
with our High. Ally, or to see the Seale ruined past
recovery ; that the reasons tor refusing to grant the
extension, are weak; ,that they do,; know what
retrenchments this AseeMbly has-in view ; and thus,
convinced of the force of these arguments, they
.threaten this Assembly, that they will leave us to
answer tor
,the dieadful conseticznces which are .tti
be apprehended from a further refusal ; arid that
they will inform our High Ally that they are unable;
from the want of the necessary consenifor, and the
means 'cf,ralsing money, to fulfil their engageMents.
Although this letter has beeturetraeedley the Diree.'
tory, yet.the impression it:has-made on me, and many
Members of this Asietnbly; has tuft been effaced; the
grounAs, indeed, are, again urged in the present pro.
}nasal. Put With whatever disdain I may regard this
letter; yet I am obliged to confess, that matters are
arrived at an extremity ; I must 'Otvn, 'that there
appears to be no alternative; is it not a cruel mock.
ery, however, alour, oppressed and . impoverished
country Men, on whom you impose this additional
burthen, in cold blood, with a profession of 'sincere
condolence, in addition to the heavy burthen which
oppressee ,them already, if, While you make this
prufeSsion, you feel to whoM, and to whose unac.
countable condue it is owing, that the nation has
no other means left, and that no other ,choice re.
mains, if you ate. resolved to fulfil the engagement
entered into: with France t

"Is the nation, I ask—are the people already so
4reitty oppressed and impoverished, to submit to
this command of the I)irettory ?—Shall the nation,
whose known and approved faith, and whose rear
diness to contribute to the utmost of its powei, has
ever
.been most manifest, and which possibly endures
the more hardships, and suffers the greater cruelty
On that very account—shall that nation admit that
the reasons of the Dire Tory are well-fotinded ? Shall
the nation allow it to he laid to hi charge, that the
Diretiory is not satisfied if the Legislaiiire• does
not resolve blindly to grant its demand ? Has that
nation (offended and provoked at its being declared
to the whole world, that they linger under an Oti.
guchical Administration, with the love' of 'their
country, under which their Colonies alai Foreign
Possessions have-been sold -and delivered up to
the common enemy) no just cause to ask--t arc
the reasons given by that Administration such as
can be depended upon, and ought to be; submit.
ted to ?'

41 Will it not ask, how this measure is to be re.
conciled with the Direetory's promise to use all pos.
sible parsimony ? And will it not find, during this
investigation, even without looking into the deeds
and resolutions, which prove this more plaioly, that
the waste of mbney not only continues, but increases
every day from different sources P Will not the no.;
tions on seeing such continued negligence, begin to
doubt, whether this Assembly, assenting to the
reasons of the Direflory, gels honestly, .or other.
wise ?

11 It cannot be denied that the sentence in the
Directory's Letter, where It Wefts not to know
what this Assembly means by retrenchment, is a
mockery, when their Committee for Financi3i Af-
fairs has 40 Elegantly pointed' ut in the'

It 01

It name

ttnl if the Direllort,:ls igncfrvir let
ii ern he cony sheW,n io every page of that
o Vqlurninotis Expoi;tifit; what po!...sihßity, what
certainty" there is., of 'luny important savings.
In' order to be Convinced, that, far from think-
ing of sayings, the exigencies of. the. St;iteshOuld not
so extravagantly exceed' its income, they tuber aa
as if ihe Itepuhlic were at it, must splendid pitch ;
it will'only be necessary to look into the expences
of the last year, and -to.compare them with the Re.
solution of the Gener:fillb,'on the expences of the al-
liance of 1792; nay, even with the. Expsitions of
499, iBOO, ; whence the progressive
increase of "expense, will appear., You have to
cothpare only, except the item for the kgi,lative
gutty, all the items of Dishursem:nts, to be can.
vinted of the sxPences, :•,vihich exceed all the pre-
ceding ones, without any greater advantage derived
therefrom.

Will not the ,Nation, tracing this increase;
ask, why such an enormous - expence is incurred
for the ostensible defence and guarding .of Colonies,
which are declared to all -Europe to have been
twice sold and delivered up to the enemy.?. The Na.
tion will ask, whether the diffcrent,offices,especially
that of the Direftory themselves, of the Secretaries
of State for Foreign Aft-443,a War,irnd of the Navy,
(not to mention the unnecessary expellee of the De.
partments and others). 'work better and harder now,
than formerly, although they cost a sum infinitely
greater ? The nation will inquire whether it *grecs
with our situation, to maintain such expensive Mi.
nisters every where ? and if it were not better to
follow the example of the American Government,
and to keep only Diplomatic A`gents at such Courts
as are of the greatest itnportance ? It will be asked,
whether it accord* with Our situation, to maintain
such a number of fortresses, 'with their magazines
and appurtenances, as we can never occuPy. ? and
why they are so much increased of late years? The
nation will be astonished, co perusing the List of
Pensions, at the numberless Officers (to say nothing
of the innumerable and very-clues-6001e political
Pensioners) placed,,on, the Pension List, during; the
latter years, most of whorewere tit and willing to
serve.--What occasion 'is there for four Schools of
Artillery, when we have but one Corps of Artillery.
men ?--And what will the Nation say, whose desire
it is to receive once.more their ancient naval fame,
on beholding the immanse sums which are required
for the building and maintaining of new Ships of
the Line, whilst roofs are construfted over those
we already have, in order to preseive them
.until
'Peace

" Our Countrymen will, on tracing the Organi.
Zation of the Naval Council, of the High Military
Tribunal, and the Colleges, as well as the -Espe.
cial Departmental and very expensive Administra.
tions,'. with the appintenances, and, on asking a
thousand other questions, be convinced, that pro.
vided only there be no new posts and 'salaries
created, au•their expence; lot individuals and their
'friends, saving enough may he made to enable us,
in a great measure, to fulfil our engagements as
Allies ; that the Nation need ,nor re:nain in .lisiress
on that account, provided the Adminastraaion only
wills it so : ruty it not be asked, whether this has
cieLbeen the ca%e since the year t Sot ; whether a-
single saving hai been m:ide since that time ? Let
the Directory name it, and. let the nation' judo to
whoth the -terrible consc'quences that are- to be ap.
'prehended are to be ascribed.

Hav,e not many circumstances rather.tenJed to
thew, since that period, that the 'ruin of the State
must result tram cilastiings, of the different save.
reigntieS -restored within our tit.ile one antl'indivi..
aible Republic, in such an expensive Oldraler, and
that, they mug increase the expellee ar.,l waste of
maney ? and have-the DkreEtory, that priod,
ever seriously set about introducing one of the great.
est savings, namely, the estahlialunent .and putting
in activity of general'impov—, ? Have they ever en.
deavoured to give great and general salutary esta.
blishments to the nation ?

4, And shall this Assembly by decreeing the pZro.
posal of the Di reAory, agree ,that there are no other
means lefti than that of buribeding the nation con-
tinually wth forced impoits ? But if the AssetriblY,
in its wisdona, should decree otherwise,. and concur
in the measure proyosed,. then I am of opinion, that
although every thing alledged cannot be controvert.
ed, that although the State Direttory ought long
since, to have proposed, to ow High Ally measures
for easing tht burtben of the War, by abolishing all
unnecessary expenees, by the utmost parsimony in
Government and Adniinist rat ion ; and that (although
the Oirefiory have not doue this, bul the reverse)
the necessity is nay urgent, and the more pressing,
as they did not sufficiently foresee the means for
satisfying the increased demands, before they grant.
ed them; and_ that this necessity is still more ur.
gent alio, because though we. should now use the
utmost parsimony, and introduce the general im.
posts," as the only means of saving the country;
yet this cannot immediately operate towards a pre-
sent relief. I, for my own part, am not -at liberty
iogive my assenting voice to the measure : ',must
also declare against the proposed anticipation ; be.
cerise the former instalments of the contribution
of 184 are far from. being cleared, and the secrind
instalment remains nearly all due; by the employ.
malt of which (it care be only taken that it ter.
inmate together with the expensive Committees of
Inquiry) there will be funds sufficient .to answer
the most pressing 'demands, ,and thus it is unnecct-
sary to give evil a premium, which would again
lesfio the-national income of th 6 proposed third.
instalruent : and this is, moreover, a reason why
I, who do nut see the pressing nature of the.mat.
ter, think „myself obliged to declare against the
proposal of the Direttory, and leave one of the
itmigeroas consequences -with which this proposal
threatens us, entirely. 'to their account, as it is not
.rrquired of this Assembly, but of the gseizetive
Power, to take vote that all .fulfil, the law equally
in these their engagements.

Let the Direttory freely say to, the Emperor
of the French, who no doubt is very well informed
of the state of afrairs, what the Bataviatis have
dune, borne antrsuffeted, since the year 1795, for
the recovery and preservation of their liberty and
independeices in obtaining and being true Cu their
aitiance with the French Republic ; and let them
Hatt v glen. by the nonlication af the ktnitett prn

it is iri2ptissible to continue to !owl
people with burden upon burden, becathe, fro:n
course of events, and the preistire4.if particuhr el;.
cutnstances, the fountain cf pr,}perty and pros-
verity, is dried up, 'or 'snlijeald to daily ciihaustiJo.
.Let the Di reetory)by an open and magnanititous
havinur, as an enemy to the general enemy, prove,
in. their deakints With the Etriperor,
.that they 4e.
worthy of ;•ets,nal good disposition toward, the
Batavia') Peevle i lei them, 'in case any Arlinisteri
intrigues have been, or are still carried on, for corn.
bi,ning with the enemies of the State, punish the-
guilty by way of example ; and I feel myself rVo
sated, that the very interest which our High Any
takes in ibis ComnionWealth (at present so-low, su
degra.le3) Will.'protittee the beat consequences, % 1
4cqu.irt• tip esteem and, in our situation, will procure
us" rciiPf, sUpp3rty.and even assistance, by respedi,,g
the nati3tul independence l lastly, that thin
rte.] 'measure of the DireCloty will be rendered on..
necessary, and .that we sh:111 br relieved froni t 1.4
painful (IA of decreeing it."

,7 LIN. 0 FFICE,

Tr!kFZ O'CLOCK, P. 'A.

Ws stop tie Prcss to statz, that we have jot
received intaigence. that the French. Squadron at
Rochefort, -cAnsisting of Seven Sail of.the. Line,
has escaped the vigilance of our Cruizers, and
,I‘4.
to sea. Wo do act, however, pledge oursthci for.
the truth of the report.