The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-29 00:00:00

I).4Ris, JAN. 24.

We were mistaken, when we stated that the
Senate would nominate the twenty Members of the
Tribunate and the sixty of the Legislative. Body,
who are to go out by rotation. That is not exactly
the fad : the Senate will name the Sixty Meinbers
of the Tribunate, and the two hundred and forty
Members of the Legislative Body, who are to
continue their fundions for the er,s'aing year. It
is said they will commence the Election this day.

From Vienna we hay:: the following article :
" Dr. GALL, %On pretends to understand men's
charaders fr 07.1, their features and figure, and the
conform:::Cion of the parts of the head, has formed a
11*"..., system, and gives public anatomical ledures on
the human brain. As his do trines might lead .to
Materialism, he has received an order from the Est-
PEROR forbidding him to teach his doarines in
public."
There have been lately some very serious trou-
bles in the County of St. IVelgenstein. The Pea-
sants there have, under various pretexts, committed
great excesses. The Count has been obliged to
send to the_Landgrave of Hesse Cassel for troops.
That Prince has sent him a battalion, which has
been stationed in the different villages of that small
County.
The two following articles are extraEted from a
Boston journal, brought by the Captain of the Ship
Venus, from Bourdeaux, after a short passage :

BOSI ON, DEC. 3,1 8o 1.-4' Yesterday Mr. SMITH;
Captain of the Deborah, arrived from Guadaloupe
in twenty-two days. He reports that a new Re.
volution is about to break out in that Colony ; that
the Captain General, LACROSSE, has been arrested,
and sent on board a Danish vessel, in order to he
conveyed to France : that some hours after her
departure, that vessel was taken by the Thames
Frigate, and carried into Martinique ; that the
Negroes of Guadaloupe had seized upon the Go-
vernment, and had chosen a man of colour for their
General and that, finally, after some days of hor-
ror and confusion, order had been re-established in
ome degree. The new Governor had published a
Proclamation to announce these events. The Pro-
elamation was brought over by Capt. SMITH."
• "By a Letter, dated Nov,. 27, Mr. THo. LEAN,
Commissary of Commercia4 Regulations at St. Do.
,n;ngo, confirms. the news of an insurreftion in that
Colony, which had been suppressed by the vigorous
and prudent measures of General CHRISTOrH E R."
PET ERS BUR GII, DEC. 27.—By one of our. Laws.,
the last remaining heirs of a family were prohibited
from selling or mortgaging the estates which they
inherited from their ancestors, in order that, in de-
fault of heirs, these estates might return to the
Crown. ,The EM? EltOR has repealed this Law by
a Manifesto, in which he reserves to the Crown
only such estates as have neither been sold or mort.
raged.

HAGUE, JAN. I7.—The Govqrnment of State,
we hear, has received intelligence that The Count.
Van STACKELBERG is appointed by his Russian
Imperial Majesty to reside as Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary in the 1.-:atavian Re.
public.
Citizen GOCKINGA, chosen a Member of the
Government of State, has, we hear, accepted of that
post, and will take his scat in the ensuing week.
The Committee which has for some time been:
occupied in framing laws and regulations for the
department of Holland, having ended their labours;
will next week break up.
The French Minister SEMONVILLE is about to,
set off from hence for Paris, where it is expected he
will continue some time.

'HAGUE, JAN. 22.—We hear that the Batavian
Legion, which the Count of STERNBACH has been
raising in the Interior of France, with consent of
the French Government, is now quite completed.
It is composed of deserters, Hungarian prisoners,
and Germans who have entered into this service.
This Legion, i zoo men strong, and commanded by
Batavian Officers, is now at Rochelle, where it is to
be embarked on board the Eendragt, the Juno, and
the Phceuix, for BaLal,ia, as soon as these ships
rive at Rochelle.

By order of the Agent of Interior Police, the
Printing-office of VAN Tr E NAN and Co. here, was
yesterday locked up, and seals affixed on the
doers, in consequence of some severe refleelions
contained in a political publication, and aimed by
the Party of the Revolutionists at some Members
of the Legislative Assembly, which caused no
little consternation and bustle among them ; and
Citizen J. C. HES!' E, the Author, was the same
evening committed to the prison of the Outer Gate
of Court.

Nothing further has as yet transpired as to the
dissentiors said to prevail in the great Councils of

the Nation.

Within these few days a report has been circu-
lated that a Revolution was again on the eve of tak-
ing place. It does not, however, seem to gain
ground, and all the cause that can be assigned for
it is, a disagreement existing between the Govern-
ment of Stare and the Legislative Body. Disunion
is even said- to prevail among the Members of the
former Body, which is by no means astonishing,
if one considers its heterogeneous composition.—
Those Orangists who have accepted of seats there,
begin by degrees to fight shy, and withdraw their
attendance, from time to time, on various pretences.
Certain it is, that the energy and vigilance which
have been manifest during the whole course of the
revolutions with which this unhappy Country has
been agitated, begin to evaporate, even among
the promoters of those great changes. As a strik-
ing instance of this, an appeal to Batavian huma.
nitv, in favour of the STADTHOLVR and his Fa-
mily, is now publicly circulated with impunity, in
which the enemies of that House are very severely
handled.

On the Negotiations at Amien, depends the fu-
ture prosperity, or the ruin of onr commerce. What
we have most to fear on this subjea, is the want of
skilful advocates to plead and to represent our
cause ; and it is singularly unfortunate at this pe_

tick!, that the most experienced and most
men ; those who are acquainted with the true in-
terests of their Country, pJlitely decline the posts
to which they are chosen; while those who accept
dim; are the avowed enemies of the present Con.
stitution.

ROTTERDAM, JAr.z. 22.—The high winds which
we have had since the thaw took place, have broken
up the ice in the Maese, and the several canals of
this city ; but the floating pieces as yet prevent
navigation. A great part of our town was yesterday
inundated with the tide, and the water in the houses,
cellars, &c. was observed to be higher than it has
been these zo years, past.
Last night.a, Gentleman who had enjoyed an office
in this city befote,the Revolution, was apprehend-
ed and committed to prison, for publishing a libel
on the Magistracy, At the same time, a stop was
put to the publication by express orders of the
Municipality.

AMERICA.

PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
LANCASTER, DEC. 5.

Senate—Samuel Maclay, Esq. is appointed Speaker
of the Senate.—House of Representatives—Matthew
Huston, Esq. is appointed Clerk of the House of
Representatives, and James .Thackara, Assistant
Clerk.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday last,
their constitutional day of convening, formed a
quorum, and after reading over the Returns, elected
the Honourable Isaac Weaver, Esq. Speaker. The
Members were then severally sworn or affirmed,
as the Law directs. The House adjourned until
ten o'clock on Wednesday morning.
It is a practice to read the Journals of the pre-
ceding day. As soon as the Clerk had gone through
with them on Wednesday, Mr. Ferguson, Repre-
sentative from the City of Philadelphia, the Metro-
polis of the United States, arose and begged to
know whether or not, the Journals, as taken down
by the Clerk, were not amendable ? The Speaker
replied in the affirmative. The Democratic Mem-
ber then moved, that the word Honourable, pre-
fixed to the name of Isaac Weaver, Esq.. might be
expunged. He said it was a foreign word, and
inconsistent with Republican simplicity, the nature
and genius of our Government. This curious Mo-
tion was seconded, —and the question being put,
Will the House agree to striking it out ?
Mr. 'Wayne rose, and said, that attempts of a
similar kind to _rob our language were not new ;
that they had frequently occurred, but not with-
out exciting astonishment in him ; why, said he,
shall we deprive ourselves of the use of terms which
are well understood, and which reflect respell mu.
tually on the persons to whom' they are applied,
and on those who make use of them ? As well
might be stricken out the word Esquire, as the word
Honourable; if the one be inconsistent with the
simplicity of Republican Manners, the other is
epially so. If our language were subjed to the
controul of our modern innovators, it would be
dismantled of every term by which we convey the
idea of superior worth, and the respect which is due
to superiors. He trusted that this House had too
much regard for its own dignity to consent to such
a motion, and would content himself with calling
the Yeas and Nays.
Mr. Mitchel said, he hoped the word Honourable
would not• be struck out; it was an epithet that
had long been used and applied to the Speaker of
this House ; if the Gentleman would expunge the
word from our language, his objets might perhaps
be attained ; but to strike the word from the Jour_
nal would answer no good end, and indeed the sub.
jea, he said, was too frivolous to occupy the time
of the House. There was such a thing as honour
in human nature ; as long as that was the case, we
must have some term to express it; he was not fond
of innovation, and should therefore be against the
Motion.

An effort was made to postpone the farther consi_
deration of the Motioni..bui it was lost.—Yeas 14.
—Nays 64.
.." r •
On Thursday, after the minntes of Wednesday
were read, Mr. Mitehel said, he was about to make
a motion, which if any of the :Members should ob_
jet to he should instantly withdraw it. •He accord..
ingly moved, that all the proceedings of yesterday,
relative to the world Hoiwurable, should be ex.
punged from the Minutes of the House.
Mr. Wayne objedcd.

Mr. Ferguson then rose and said, he most cor.
dially objetted to the Motion. The more, says he,
that I relied on this subbed, the more fully I am
convinced of its propriety.
The Motion was accordingly withdrawn.