The Sun.
London, England, 1805-12-11 00:00:00

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DAY.-1)13.% 10.
John ~Steevons anti lames Warwick were ccinvitßea
of having burglariouily entcred and robbed the
he use John of Barrow't-Ltnv,, Vinchley, of
BU linen and ;,U calico shirts, in ,10;1(1 of enkting
into any clefetieo when called- on ter thA Purpose,
they implored the egyrt to limit! rte rc.y its the pre,
sent .‘t as their -tirbt offence.

Code:huh Phillips., a Jew hawker of fruit, wadi
convitied of uttering ;t b 7s, pievo, :.itowing it 10
bo,b;ise and counterfeit. tie it;id .O;;bei4 hut
time since tried. for 'situilar offence, and 1/2-49 Well
to the 3 Ttlo. Ci)urt,
tlzti> -
fort*, ortlert..d hint. tnbe ititprisoneit ,one art u anJ at
the expiration Of ilia time to iind bail for his good
behaviour ibr two yt:„;..,.
04.arfes Wilkes tvtis tri,cl owl coovitlel ofa breach
of trust, in having dell\ waT.Lott load of eoids
at a different out: frot-A, tit.ti it, y, a,4
and latwiLK Rii Elio thhe
titer person to poi in a ticlte. At 16C, this
Pritiolla V. ii dvsircti to deliver ttwin, tr,i a eertifitgite
Of the trut2 d:_liveiy. The Prisoner Vefls )1;2111e11CCA
to be transported for seven years.

Cht WeciritNflay, Mr. l'icrscm, -coal,t4erch3nt :01
Boglestreet,-.Southattlptoh, v,./4s -fimod hang rte in
iiis, cliarilbt::rrto the bed -post, suSvended by his
peeket-handkerchicf : ho pet:ithiary eatimmmtmht
ig supposed to- be the came of un, ao, noris it
yot wiint cawe to a.,km-iho

DE21.11-O.PRICIAL STATE PAPER.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT SITUATION

OF WUR i'LMJIERG.

The sacrifices of all kinds, which the EleCtor
of Wurtemberg has made to the very last moment,
with the most scruptilous perseverance and exaCt=
tress, in aVour of the Imperial and Royal House of
Austria, during the last 'War with France, far beyond
.
the obligations imposed upon Min. in his quality of
;I Co-estate; of the -Germanic Einpire, and those
which ho 'had. contracted With that Court, are too
generally known to be recalled here. By AS much
as his Eleetoral Highness ought thence 'to have
thought himself founded in expecting, in return
from that Court, that it would be the first to
• take an interest in his behalf, in a particular man-.
' net, in subsequent Negotiations which took
place respeCting the Indetnnitiei, by so far has he
been deceiVed in his' just hopes ,in that respeet.
Very far from calling to mind the greatness of
all his sacrifices, the different Austrian AUthorities
have only, from that moment, in the different cir-
cumstances in which the points of coetaa with the
interests or posseSsions of the Electoral House
presented opportunities of sliming merited gra-
titude, and during the short continuance of Peace,
taken pains to bani.th the recolleClion of them ; for
instance, the unjust refusal of indemnification for
very considerable 'deliveries in . provisions made
to the ,AuStrian- Army during the last War, in
the Country of Wurtemberg, notwithstanding the
soletim promise of payment, and that of the resti-
tution of the Wnitemberg Artillery/which had been
Simply lent during the continuance of the War,-,-
Finally, What passed at Esslingen in the last
Assembly of 'the' Circle of Suabia, at. which
the Minister of Austria took upon himself pro-
co:idingS unsuitable, • as. well as violatory of the
rights bf the • Dirthory of the Circle, and me-
nacing particularly the integrity of the Constitution,
and the cendueft of the Aulic Conned of the Empire
in its differences with the Equestrian Order, still
furnish striking Proofs.
rP Notwithstanding the Ele&or did not make any
e,hange hi his conduct towards the Court of Vienna,
as is eviL'ently proved by his extreme condeseention.
on‘oe6oion of the reensal of Putting him in posses-
sion of litiiligenKieurtbal, whiCh made part of the
indemnities adjudged to his EleCtoral Highness, as
whets it pleakd that Court to put in force
a'gainst the'Eleaor the principle of sequestration
which it' set forth.
i‘ When, last July, the , hope of seeing Conti-.
get Peace preserved began to weaken, in conSe-
quenee of the, knowp declaration tnade at Berlin
by , Nososiltzof,. the Eleelor could not conceal
from himself the probability of 'the War which
haS tinhanpily broke out ; but he wasl.ery far from
eiile,tittg that the intentions °film, Court of Vienna
.+;09,1d tend to make of the anterior Cireles of the
.444qiire, and
,consequently of the State of Wurtem-
berg;--itLelheatre of a War winch was and should
have conthineu rAxiolutely foreign to thetni and to
expose them thereby to aid the disastrous effeas which
are necessatily their consequences.
In such a,- con,jpneture the first cares of his
IneE toral Highness, were. to seek to ensure; if it
were still possible, the tranqUillity of his StateS';
rierstOded, as he had a right to be, that he would
tindoliinisiAlin safety on the'..side of the Home of
;klsll'ii,. made all his efforts to ensure to his
Stiites.the (.:aijoyinent of a, perfeet neutrality. He
addresse/1 himself in consequence to his Majesty, the
Xing of Prussia,. and at, the same time set on.
row an amicable and confidential N'egotiation ou
that subject, with 'the Ele6tOrs of Bavarki;
den, and Hesse Cassel; as :well as with tho
andgntve of Hesse Darmstadt, ;iltit the dila-
tory declarzttions. of the Coiirt of Berlin, as wall -ai
the different relationS of lOcaliq' and the interests of
Other Courts, opposed an obStacle to these salutarym
• .
easures.

"It Was durmg these. trials' of the Eleelor=that
De-Schrant; the Austrian EriVoy at the El Ot: -
tor 'Court; gave, official .know of the Note
which
_bad been :comiuunicated by his Court t!0 that
of the 'ThuillerieS at the Cernnieneement of the
!Month of August last,. by which Atistria, in the
midst of her, warlike operations in Italy and Ger-
many, proposed to reaume the negociations of,
,peace
that,had been till then interrupted. This conntu-
nication was accompanied -by no other overture
on the true situation of the respeEtive relations, and
'the plan was carefUlly concealed, which. had then
-been already; formed, of converting the southern pro,
vinces of Germany, and particularly the' States of the
Elettor, into the theatre of a devastating war, in
spite. of the dispositions of the laws of nations and of
the Imperial capitulation.
" During several Weeks the Envoy of Austria ob-
served the most profound silence until he finally-
made to the, Elei:AoralNlinker of Foreign Affairs,
by, the 4press or4lpri t)f... his . Conn, the unexpeaed:
verbal demand--" 'if-tiie;court of trance had not
piopouri to hn Eleoloral Big/meas to: place. at its
dispostal thv troops, artillery and anenunitia'n of War.
temherg, and what was the resolution. formed in that

ty the Elector i'! As till that moment nO
such proposition had been. made, it:was answered,
observilig,, at the same time, to Al. Dc
,Schratit, the
indeciincy of such a question, relatively to the tOrm„
that uo propcisition.of that nature had been received,
'or' was expel red -froth France.
" kv.ti" the state of things :when the Em-
peror 'Of, Ow French: Caused communication to. be
made to the Diet. of the Empire, by his Charge 7
r-Aff tires at flatisbon, of the danger in Which the
&Atli of Germany w:is plaited by the constantly in-
Crevitig preparations of.4stria.: The Eleaor must
hat iecosorily taken occasion from thence to testify
f.to' . of the' Enipecor of Germany and Aus-
tria, by the organ of Minister. for Foreign Af-
fairs, his just astonishment ,t hat the Court of Vienna,
siwe the pure and:simple communication of the said
Note ,transtuitted to Paris, should have left his
Ele6toral Highness, notwithstanding ..the import
st ace and Urgency: ef the circumstances, without
thoe least confidential overture, without any notifica-
tion, abandoned tehimself, and:ex'posed to the most
inuninent and incalculable dangers that the EleCtor
thought himself authorised,' by his different intimate
relations with the Iniperial 'House of Austris, to ex-
pea more attention on its pa:l, particularly at a MO-

_ . •
meat in which it appeared, by its itifiliiary disposi-
tions, indubitably to menace the South of Germany
with an invasion of its troops, which would net s-
sarily draw thither, and particularly into the States
of the Elector, the French armies.
" After two such representatiens., eqnally press-
ing, ,
the. Austrian Envoy, in tine; gave' this answer,
" That he had received no orders from his Court on
the siikjea and that lee had himself no knowledge
of the state of a/lairs." The Eletioral Envoy to the
Diet of the Empire at Ratisbon was not more suc-
cessful, when, on the occasion of the said Note of
she Charge d'Affaires of France; he received orders
from the EleEtor to make to the, Imperial Co-com-
missary the' demand, noless natural than pressing
What, were the designs of the House cif Austria, and
what had the South of Germany, and partictilarly the
States of his Eh:Clot-al Highness, to expea or to fear
from the approaching events ? M. De Hugel pre-
served, a profound silence, from which. nothing could
move him. Every attempt to obtain from the.
Court of Vienna confidential explanations respe&ing
the grand political crisis with which we were,
naced, or some dire&ion to take measures of safetY,
were ineffectual. All the Ministers of AuStria re-
mained dumb, until at length, in despite of all the
righti of nations, and of the Constitution of the Eni-
pire, the Austrian Troops invaded the States of .13a-
varia, and spread from thence throughout all Upper
Suabia, and into a considerable part of the Eleaoral
States.
This entrance of the Austrian troops took place
without any notice or previous requisition what-
soever, as if it should be Considered.as an enemy's
country. It was also marked by violence mid ex.-.
aEtions, bearing openly the charaCter of the most
cruel hostilities. Not content with having obtained
from the subjeaS of the EleEtor lodging and nourish-
ment, these Troops overwhelmed them with requi-
sitions of all kinds, from the 25th of September to
the 14th of Oilober. They exaed among other,
things,, from the 16 Bailiwicks, several thousand
workmen to work at entrenchments, beyond the
States of his Eleaoral Highness., , An enormous
quantity of bread, grain, pats, hay,,and meat, was
put in requisition, without calculating whether phy-
sical possibility permitted its,delivery, especially in
the short delay'afforded for that purpOse.
a
These proceedings were even carried to such
an extremity, that in several Bailiwicks all the cat-
tle were marked and carried off by main force.—
Thousands of pairs of .Shoes and cloth cloaks, &c.
were exacted. 'These.exaCtions were in part:raised
immediately, and by force by military Corps, and in
part exalted under menaces of the most :severe ex-
ecution, by arrest and carrying off the Offieers of
the Elector. „ • •
" Finally-4o carry violence to its height, a civil
authority, the'Chief Commissariat of the-Austrian
army, occupied by the .Counsellor Of the Imperial
Contt, STLINIIBER, permAted himself, in a manner
certainly hithertdunheard of, to accompany the re-
quisitioji of 50,000 pertions of bread, find` 25.0
tals of meat, made at the single Bailiwick of 81au,.:
heuren, with the barbarous menace of the pillage
of that'town, announced in writing. When the
demands were not fulfilled immediately the most
barbarous anoitruel modes of execution Were used'
against the inhabitants, and most ofs them were re 7
duced to s despair, .and. abandoned to the lowest
misery. The deplorable state of these unfortunate
People became still More cruel, by the injustice
of the military in paying for obje&s, which they
levy with paper money, losing nearly half its nomi-
fiat value, and forcing them to give money in' ex-
change for it. Essays were even made- to appro.-
priate by these means 'the Ele&oral and Public
Chests, by seeking to substitute this paper tbr them:
- The Eleetor, as profoundly affliCted as justly indig-
nant, at seeing his States, without motive or previous,
declaration, invaded, inundated with fereign troops,
treated with • all the hardships and violence that a
war with him could alone have justified, and that
by a Power which, in .its public declarations, ans
,nounces having friendly and protecting intentions,
ordered'his Minister for Foreign Affairs to make to
M..DE SCITRAT,. respeaing these_ violences, the
strongest and most energetic representations, and
to require of him that he would interpose his antho!-
rity and his good offices id' terminate these re. Na..
tiani, Which would scarcely be permitted in an
enemy's conquered country, and which evidently
proved a state of war, of which the EleCter could
not -.even guess the motives. The'Atistria;i Envoy,
in his answer, disapproved,, in truth, highly the con-
dna of the Austrian troops, . and promised to take
ane:proper steps to remedy it ; but his premises
were inetleotual. The oppressiOns and exactions of
kinds, which the sEledoral. Staten had to stiffer,
rose to such a height, that they not only gave daily
place to the most just and bitter' complaints, but re-
duced the inhabitants of several :Bailiwicks to the
'last extremity. ,
It was in the midst of these RaS a violence
that the.passage.of the .Rhine was effeCted by the
'French Grand Army, . and its entrance. into Wur-
terriberg
,noticed by the,proceedinga of 'Austria, and
the march of its troops to the Southern froetiers
of the Circle of Suabia. It was then Only that the
.Court of Viedna was pleased to recollea the es...=s
istence of the ELECTOR, any the CritiCal pOsitVin:
in which it had placed .his States, by making 01
them, as well as of .all Suabia, the theatre Or a
war in which they ought to take neither part tier In-
terest. it was then, in tine, that it thought pro-
per to send to his 'EleaOral Highness an aent, in
the Person of the said Counsellor of tin Court,
SThlNtis:Eit. This chalet) must necessarily have
.astonished i the Eleaor, seeing the disagreements
which: this individual had occasioned at the last
assembly of the Circle of ESsling,en, and the manner
in which he Supported, without reserVe, the violences
whieh eke ..,Ititriiin Authorities had long.perrnitted
themselves. He appeared at the moment that 24,006,
French troops were in the territories of the ELEc-
roa, and oceupied the environs of his resideece.
Without kino- lible to disculpate the prbeeedings .of.
his Court, in'riavink precipitated his' EleCtoral Sigh-
.ness into the most imminent danger ; without being
able to give any assurances respeaing the hostile qon•-
dna of the. Austrian troops, this diplomatic Agent
Sssis simply charged with testifying to -the 41.Ecaon
the sincere regret experienced by the Emituton; his
a Seeing his- Highness planed in a situsition
go l er , a t
perilous (of which the -ELEcasaa, from the inti-
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