The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-05 00:00:00

pdßis, OCT. 1,

p. Legislative Body, at its. Sitting of the t3tll
of June last, hawing decreed that a Medal should he
struck in honour of thatmernorable Seisicin, during
which Treaties of Peace with six Powers were pro_
claimed, Public Worship and initruelion re-orga-
nized, and the Colonies re.conquered, More by
the wisdom, of the Laws than by the force of Arms,
the Medal -waa presented to the First Conloi .on
the 23d of September last, by the AdministratiVe
Committee of the Legislative Body.

ACTS C) GOVERNMENT.

DECREE OF THE 20 OF JUL,?, 180 t.

The Consuls of the Republic, on the Report of
the Minister of Marine and Colonie4, having heard
the Council of State, decree,

Aar. r. It is prohibited to all Poreigners.to bring into the
Continental Territory of 'the Republic any -11136c1 Mulatto,
or Person of Colour, of either sex.

• z. It is likewi:..e prohibited to all Blacks,
..lAulattoes, or
*llO shall not. be in the ser.,
,eocOe of Colour, areal= sex,
vice of the Republic, to enter in future on the Continental
territory of the Republic, tbr any cause, or under any .pre-
text whatever, unless they shall be furnished with a slietial
authority from the Magistrates of the Colonies from whence
they come, and have not quitted the Colonies Wit'ltaut She
authority of the Minister of Maria and eolonieS,,,
All Blacks or Mulattoes who shall. be introduced after
t: publication of the present Decree, on the Continental
Territory of the Republic, without being furnished with
the authority pointed out in the preceding Article, Shall be
trrestcd, and detained until their transportation.
4 The. Minister of Marine and Colonies is charged with
the execution of the present DC‘tree, which shall be: inserted
in the Bulletin of Laws.
The first Consul.

(SiPcd) BONAPARTE
By the First Consul.

The Secretary of Sate (signed) H. 8. mA$42.

botiriirAt.Tb, )'IRST coNsuz, or rug ILENCIt
iftesIDENT Or THE ST AL.11614 14E..
ruspc, oEctErs,
• -Herr, small arms, and warlike ammunition; shall
be cedecroitt of those now existing in the ltalian Repifblic.
The artillery now in those places belongs to the Italian
to the =DIME of 4,n05,000 of livres.
111. The Minister at War of the Italian Republic shall
4ppoint an Obicer of-Artillery to superintend the dismantling,
draw up inventories, and make eitunates, in concert with an
Officer of the French Artillery, whom the Minister at War
di the French Republic shall appoint.
IV. All the pieces of artillery which Shall be ceded to the
"allan Republic shall be re-cast to the calibre of 6, 12,, 18,
•114, ./.4l b. ; the mortars tog 8 and so inches; and tile howitzers
(01 inches 6 lines, in the arse of the year'
. The Minister at War of the INA an Republic shall
Cause tw bridges of boats to be cont.trueted, one for therpti§-
"kat the Poond the other for the Olio and the Adige.
Vilteen thousand, Musquets, two thouSitid pairs of
pistols, and two thousand carbines, shall be made in the
cants:: of the year fr.
"VI Tiiere snail hr an armoury at Mantua, eaPable of
tontainins• ri.usia.ts ; ..ncl -at Piezighetone, ("tie of
45.0,50.
The Minister at War of the Italian Republic is
than. gel -with Lim excite van of the west-auk-erre.
• • (Signed) BONAPARTE.

• • ,
ItZiritAtT Or A L.ErrElit altoat ?AR's, ma% :S.„
• "leaving in my last sufficiently detailed alit lead_ang occurrences, which charafterized the celet-ration
Of the Anniversary. of the Foundation of the trench
,R.epubllc, and nothing remarkable 'having since
taken place, which claims immediate'-notice, I re.
-time,. according to promise, the narrative of my
Peregrinations.
;" I left St. Omer .on. Thursday the gth inst. at six
o'elocki and took my place in the Barge for Dun.
• kirk, the distance of Z 7 miles, We breakfasted' at
•' Warren, a village .about eight miles distant from
Zra Omer, -and where the Jesuits had formerly
'Celebrated College, now-converted into-a Seminary
for the Sons-of the." Principal Inhabitants of Calais,
bankirk, &c. For our breakfast we were charged
telknatietaftl, The Country -yn each side--of the
N'ignil,prtionia a cheerful aspe.d .!.. the Whear.lar-
,..vest ival4:e,ortiple-telyi got in ; I saw 'a plentiful
•Zcipof Horse.beans, Which, with the cultivation of
flax', scent form the chief part of the produce.,
The Canal from St. Otner to Bourbourg, a distance
about eighteen miles, abounds in fish, pdrticu,
larly a vety species of Roach, and some of the
Fmest Perch I ever beheld. Our Bargeman dis_
played extraordinary skill.and adroitness in Om:
g the fish,, as we sailed along.; not with. an eel._
-*Pear, but with an instrument resembling a . har-
Son, which he darted with such velocity and eia4.,'
that heiseldom missed "his aim ; aipotig others,
s)e. brought up a Perch that weighed upwards of four
• l'oands. Bourbourg is a very neat little town, hut
f.'i's-not wholly escaped the Revolutionary scourge.
;there is a very large Mansion at the end of the.
town, which still &stovers traits of splendour arid
41agniticenee, but at present it
,is little better than.
Vtleserted.- Some years ago,. an English Getrtleinan:
tained leave to erea a Windmill on the Tolim-
,"all for the -manufa6ture of Tobacco ; he had !sof.,
TsWever, worked it long, before 'the Inhabitants
complained of his Mill as being a nuisance. He
73, accordingly, obliged to shorten his sails; but
f.lll the Town's people were dissatisfied, and made
„.ouent remonstrances against it, which at last
zk,.ll"ed in a stop being put to the working of the
in. • The'Proarietor is now in Paris.
As you advancei from Bourbourg to Dunkirk,
meet with a rapid succession of neat and comfort.
Lue‘te farms, and the inhabitants appear to be in 'iriach
ter circumstances than from Calais to Sr. alien
aye very feW beggars, comparatively speaking-,
I°s v hat I did -in the former part Of my journey.—
e arrived in Dunkirk about five in the evening;
rA%Qt price of the Barge the same as from Calais so Sr.
Watt :Yixal,ts. for the best cabin, is. 6d.-,for the
thtlltfigal anti;ia. for the deck, Whlell, in fine wea.
You have
1$ infinitely preferable to any other place, as
atehave the advantage of prospeel ; not to mention
wit
‘..closeness of the cabin, -and the disagreeable
lett which always prevails in the interior of the
tilata,— must observe, however, that you are
o,i.„red fur your trunk, independant of what you
•Pd}. god your own conveyance.
_t I. had been recommended by a friend at Calais to
't .I?Yreriean Hotel in Dunkirk ; but, unfortunate.
the Landlord died the very moaning of my ar,

rival, sand at. I hada Lady in eoalpanY, 1 could not
conveniently take her to a house where the Landlord
lay a corpse. I accordingly inquired for another
Hotel, and was 'recommended to the Chapeau Pasagy,
Rtie de la. Liberty. That I had great reason tt, re_
pent. the recommendation, on account of the share_
id' impositions pradised by the Landlady, the
widow PICARD, who took care to charge me Eng-
lith price for all I bad. I stopped at Dunkirk three
days, during which I twice visited the Theatre,
which is built upod a more extensive, as well as a
more elegant plan than that cf. Calais, though the
price' of -admission is the. same: The first night of
My arrival, a new Adress, of -then:nut of Roesste.
Lois, made her debut, in a newpieceas entitled Les
f'Petendus, and with such success, that the piece was
repeated the following evening, though not a night
of regular performance. They have plays five times
a week at Dunkirk ; Friday and Saturday being the
only days-on which the Theatre does not open.—
The Manager's name is FOADEN ;- the Performers,
in general, have no tegular salary, ~but play, as it
is -technically termed, on Shares.
Much activity prevails in the harbour of Duna
kirk. I counted six vessels building. Of these
four are of very large dimensions, and in a state of
great forwardness. The keel was laid for a seventh,
.of considerable size. The principal ma'ket_place
is very spacious ; in the centre stands the Tree of
Liberty, railed in with iron pallisadoes : adjoining
to it is a marble pedestal, but no statue is as yet
ereeted upon it. At St. Omer they have the God-
dess of Reason,.
" The excessive heat of the weather, superadded
to the bad qualityof the water, which has a bracktsh
taste, had engendered a kind of epidemic disease,
which carried self several persons. I saw one family
that lost three of its members in one -week, by a
putrid fever. Indeed the weather, at I understand,
has been extremely sultry in every part of France.
I took-especial care to run little, or rather no risk,
from the badness of the
.water, for I did not drink
one glass of it during the whole of the three days I
.
spent in Dunkirk, but plied myself plentifully with
wine, as the best antidote and specific against the
fever. They have two market days in, the Course
of the week, Wednesday and Saturday—hut Satur-
'day is by far the most considerable and important.
I saw plenty of game, particularly; partridges and
hares, in the market. •
asaas • a .
" The ordinary price of the tabli d'hote is from
is. 6d. to is. Bd. per, head, exclusive of wine.
The post sets out for Calais eisery morning at five
o'clock ; the poatage of letters from Dunkirk to
Dover, 4d. the same as from St. Omer.
" Monday, the t zrh, at five o'clock in the morn..
ing, I embarked on board the barge for Nieuport.
At Stitichotte, a small village about six miles dis-
tant,from Dunkirk, you are under the necessity of
changing the barge, the water being so low, that
it requires a bare of' very small dimensions, and
lignt construction. Four-and-twenty years ago, in
consequence of -a violent storm, which caused the
sand_hills to shift their position, the ancient parish
thuech was completely overwhelmed and buried,
so that nothing remains visible of it but te steeple.
The new church was converted by the Dui of
Arsaatax,...-at the time of his ataack on Dunkirk, into
arammuririti magazine, and falling into the hands
of the 'Enemy, on the retreat of the British Forced,
they found upwards of iOOO barrels of gunpowder,
besides-a sufficient quantity of cannon to supply the
whole of the fortifications of Dunkirk.
" From Sudchotte to Furnes, the barge literally
drags the ground; the canals being terribly ne_
glefted ever since the commencement of the French
Revolution. We arrived at Fumes about ten
o'clock in the morning.
" In Furnet, as in all other places subject to France,
the Tree of Liberty is planted in the market-place.
The inhabitants are by no means reconciled to their
Gallic Masters. The church had formerly a very
excellent set of bells, PUt the French have sold them
all, with the exception of one, and that a very' small
One indeed,, which serves to ring the inhabitants to
Divine Worship. I visited the church (it being
'service time) which is dedicated to St. Nicholas.—
From the pulpit hung aprinteeCOPy, in the Flemish
language, of the Pastoral Lettai,-bi -the Bishop of
CH atter, on the occasion of the re-establishment of
Religious W.orallip.
" In the vicinity of Leflinghe, a small-village about
six gnglish miles distant from Nieuport; I met with
the first fl sck of sheep I had an opportunity of see-
ing since I set foot in the territories of the French
Republic. They were about re° in number, and
in good condition. At Leflinghe we took on board
twelve large baskets filled with river fish, chiefly
bream, but of a fery small sites destined for Ghent.
I should have noticed; that at 'Fumes, we again
shifted our barge ; we exchanged the slight and
small VeSsel We entered at Sudohotte, for one of
large dimensions. We arrived at Nieuport between
the hours of twelve and one at noon, and again
shifting our barge,-embarked on one of still larger
dimension's, than any in which we had yet tt4"velled,
from Bruges. Whilst we wcie shifting the baggage,
I repaired to the church, and was greatly pleased to
ate the care and attention which the Minister paid
to the instruttion of the children. The boys and
girls were arranged in separate classes, and the
Minister was examining them in the catechism, in
-which they. 'appeared to be very well versed, and
replied to the interrogatories put to them With
readiness and precision. The utmost decorum pre..
vailed among theni, and the air of unfeigned devo_
tion, equally remote from levity on the one hand,
and .puritanical hypocrisy on the other, which I
could plainly read in their looks, afforded me great
satisfaelion. And here it is proper to apprise the
English Reader, that:in speaking of the Clergy, a
„wide and essential difference-is to be made between
the Cures, who are the officiating Clergy of the Dio.
cese, are in their general chard men of probity,
piety, and adive service, and the swarm of lazy
drones, who .tender the,name of Monks and Priests,
eat th'd bread of idleness, and fatten, like locusts, on
the labour of others. The former class of Clergy
(the Cures) are entitled- to respell and cateem-the
latter are, speaking in the aggregate, an useless and
unworthy set."

•
On Friday last died at Brumptod, in childbed,
Mrs.Nrott, wife of SAMUEL YATE 13EUY4N,
Esq. alCing's.road, Bedford-row.