The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-09 00:00:00

MAIL FROM HOLLAND.

Thus morning. arrived
,a Mail from ifel/a../iA
From a Correspondent at Rotterdam, we have freer)
favoured with the following Articles of Intelligence :

OPEN' (irriftriccAty), DEC. 3 r ..---Let ters-
Brechaftst mention, that PAsw AN Ocmu is at pre.
sent causing the coin of the GRAND SEIGNIOR to_
be counterfeited ; for which purpose he has already
Used about sooolb. wt. of silver and copper; but
the Army as well as the inhabitants refuse to accept'
this money:. According to Letters froui Bruins;
several liaclia-s, with an Army consisting of 7otio
Kersals; Spahis, and many thbusand Janisi-
ries, are marching towards Widdin and Belgrade i 7.
and it is confidently asserted, that the Van of. this
Army is
,already arrived in the vicinity of the lest
mentioned City. -
BERN, SVri 'MEI:LAND, DEC. ZO.—The Cou-
'rier which the Senate had 'dispatched to Paris,
after the Chief Bailiff, was there detained by him
till an opporzunity offered of giving some particulars
of an audienCe s4ith the First Consul.' Last night
he returned here ; and immediately on his• ar..
rival, the Senate was summoned to an - extraordi.; •
nary 'Sitting. According to goneral report, the
following is the substance of the Dispatches which
he brought. REDING has bad two audiences with
TALLE'iR NWD, and on with the First Consul, and,
in every instance was much more favourably received
than had been eeCted. He has been assured, that
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France did not desire a renunciation of any part oi
Switzerland; on. the contrary, that what France
possesses already'of the Country, shall be restored..
Each -Canton is left .at. liberty to chuse for itself
whatever Constitution it shall please ; and- the Al.
Hance of.' 79.8 shall be annulled. 'For the,remain..
der, the chief Bailiff' mentions, that his stay -ark
Paris will be of much longer duration than he had at,
first imagined, since he has been requested to ne.-
gotiate in person with the Minister fur ForeignAf.
airs, respetting these points. ,
VigNx-A, Ec i§.—The solicitations to have

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the X fx6' of Em it aI A- acknowledged by our Court, -•
are again renewed: however, it is extremely pro..:
Kahle that this acknowledgment will not taktzpiace`
before the GRAND Ilua-a of TuscANT is fully, in:. - "
demnified for his Dukedom. • - - •

Yesterday Dispatches were received here from
the Count-of SAV ROO, our Minister at Peterstiurgh,
which relate to the business of Indetnnity Ger.,
many. _

The annual revenues- which the Cip-Ano Du :s. of
TUSCANY has 10t, and for which he must be in.
demnified, are said to amotmt to i,700,000 florins.
DEc. 19.—The several Archives of the Nether,.
lanch; 'which relate to the Finances, the Sovereign
Tribunal, the National Debts, &c. are now handect
to' the French Amliassador residing here. The De-,
partment of the Netherlands, which bad existed stilt
hitheito, is abolished.

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BERLIN, DEC. 26.—General MACDONALD 13
'6ll-01:tly expthed here from Copenhagen :he wilt i
stay a,month in this City, and then proceed to Paliss, .
wit kiwis friend General BEITRNoNv r LL E.
Theitr.Majesties-the King and—t-JeE7 -rc a ril
rived, from Potsdam in this Metropolis, where they .4
11 wilipass the winter.---His Majesty has 21/paints-A
his Irother, PRINCE WILL lAN, Captain of Horac
of the Guards du Corps in this Capital, .

THE HAGUE, JAN.-2.—To-day a message was
received in the Legislative Assembly, from the
Government of State, accompanied by two plans,
the one regarding the National Tribunal and the
other the National Syndicate ; the discussion of
both which were referred to t:
a Committee ; when i
was resolved, that an extraordinary sitting shOuld be
held on the t2th of January. The business of this'
meeting is said to be the l)ecrecing of the two Pro.,
positions above-mentioned, with another for
National Chamber of Accounts,' and also for e3ti.
mating- the Ways and Means for the year 180'2.
The greatest part of
-this country, in consequerice
of the continual rains, and strong South-west winds,
,which'We have had for some time vast; lies at pre•
sent under water. Several interior dykes have givea
way, which contributes not alittle to the talamity.
Ai Hazirswoude, an accident of this nature tool:
place between the 27th and 28th ult. in thetifti,oht-;
and, If the greatest vigilance had not been Altrted,
a general inundation in that quarter would have been
the consequence. At Sevenhiiizeti an inundation
has occasioned the most dreadful ravages : the 'mills,
the carpenters and shipwrights yard,-and.the barns,
hayricks,'&c. of the farmers, are entirety under:
water, which,' in some places, is risen twelve
feet abOve the dry ground. The' cattle, indeetl,:
are saved, but, with the unfortunate labourers, irt
danger of perishing through want. Contrary to
custom, we have as yet had but little snow and.
frost.' - ' •

, • rs.
. Admiral HARTZINK; `with oquabrOn; con.-
sisting of .otie French and • three Dutch Frigates,.
having'the—lthrnilf-brigade of French Troops or)
board, has put to sea:
Notwithstanding the arrival'ot several English'
Coal-ships in the• Ports of this Republic, since the.,
signing of the Preliminaries, there is at. present
great scarcity of coals; and the prices are accord,:
ingly advancing.
A',Letter from Mllenblirg mentiOds, that apart-,
ments are fitting up in the Castle oflOrangestein, for
.her Highness.. the Hereditary -Pitt cms of BauNs..
.
WICK, who is to pass some time with the Prince 1'
her fatheri •

SURREY hog RAILWAY.--011 Thursday last
v
the Lbek, Canal, and Eason, from whicihhe pro-
poked Iron Railway. is • to commence aFWands-
worth, was opened, and the water' admitted front
the Thames. The first barge entered 'the lock
amidst a concourse of spea.ators, ‘'vlio rejoiced in
the completion of this part of the important an"
useful work.

A discovery has taken place at Birmingham, by
meads of, an accomplice,. of the .engravipg ~.!
quantities of Bank Notes. It is ofsuclicOnseqelence'
that the Bank Directors have sent their Sots: tors
with proper Officers, down there, it being presuwea
that several are .00rrcerned, besides the one now ill
Newgate. ,

THE THEATRE.

Cevetit Garden,

Tut Tragedy of King Lear was last night re_
presented at this Theatre, and the venerable Hero
of the Piece was performed by COOKE. The ge-
neral manner of COOKE is bold and vigorous ; and
this manner is well adapted to his usual train of
eharaders. There is, however,, a tenderness, ye-
hemtnce and imbecility in Lear, which require a
softness, and a-rapidity of transition, that do not
Well suit, with the -strong, unbending nature of
COOKE's talents.
There is, besides, a dignified pride, and' con.
scions majesty in the injured Monarch, 'which de-
mands higher deportment than usually appears in
COOT E's Adion. Whether he performed under an
intimidating sense of the difficulty of the part, or
whether he was not sufficiently studied in it,
pretend riot to say, but certain it is that his per-
' formance was not equal to what we,expeded.
The Curse,, which is generally a passage that
strongly arrests the feelings, went very " tardily
/il;" because it did not seem the result of ungovern-
able fury, but followed a cold and needless pause.
CooxE is a powerful Ador, but,he should keep
to his proper province. We think he has too hastily
adopted the part of Lear ; but if on the whole he
discovered no striking degree of excellence, iv: still
displayed a degree of merit which excited respea,
though not admiration. 'As he will most probably
perform 'this -part again, we advise him to skew
" more method in his madness " for instead of de
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neriln t- a s the abrupt wanderings of a perturbed
atid, he,seemed rather to be reciting what was
stored-in the memory.
Mr. SlDsr'
D s gave a spirited and interesting sup_
port to Edgar, and under the affeded madness of
the dander, threw out some pathetic touches in
pity of Lear's misery and degradation, that indi-
cated strong sensibility.
There was a softness and delicacy in. Miss
4v-untßAY's Cordelia that came home to the feelings
of the Audience. •
COKRy •
.„,44 spoke with a kind of tremor in the
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_ay d, that lessened the masculine energy of the
part., ,
NVA
Dux rendered -Old Kent more ,than usually
of the
eiredive.,in the honest
pretended loyalty and sarcastic bluntnessended Carus.
ought not to close this
tribute of
article without paytng
which was praise to HULL in the part of Gl.,seer,
marked by the manly feeling and. sim_
PlicitY of the Old School.

IZTRACT OE A •LETTEA FROM BRUSSELS, DATED
DEC. o', 1801.
. • "About three leagues:before you get to kr/Terrs;
the-French territory commences at a village called
...IflP-weiel, wherelberc is a French Custom-house.
the Commissary asks very politely if there is any
thing in your baggage subjed to duties to be paid
the Fretich Republic ? On receiving a negative,
You are 'suffered to proceed. On the z6th Dec. I
-arrived at Antwerp : I was asked for my passport
at the gate, and was-allowed to
nproceed. It may
bot be' amiss to give you some idea of passports
,; iify to enter France —,-Every person Who ar
ilves at a frontier town must go to the Preftet
to gee
' ills passport verified, and unless it ii from the Minister
of the Interior at Paris, he is stopp P
ed till the refeel *ends the passport to Paris to be verified. Pass,.
ports given by French Ambassadors at ,Foreign Conrts
are not worth:a stem,---There were two Irishme in
here detained six weeks till their passports Came
from Paris, although they had one frOm a French
AmbassadorEngi at a Foreign Court. Antwerpisfull:
of Englishmen detained froze, want "ofpassports
..,
" Neutral vessels have
a , during- the whole of the
the
'Wr, entered Antwerp, and, since signing • of.
Preliminaries of*Yeace; near 160 vessels of differ-
ent Nations have entered that port. The Merchants
there have been very.considerable gainers; instead ,of ,east losers, by the trench being in Belgium. There are at
' 20 persons•of great prOperry froni,Holland and
4 er•nianY, about to establish themselves there as soon
at
Antes Definitive Treaty,is signed. The Exchange
T"'`verp is very large and can contain more
Persons rie -
1,,,1em ',An our Royal Exchange.- Formerly. it
Pqe----now constantl frequented. To give
Yol,ap, ideah Y cif two
courses ow cheap provisions must be, you dine
--urses Flemisha-
pence (
for x 7
excellent strong bear . wine is paid for aparr.......
telgiu has been a. .
very plentiful harvest in
In, nevertheless the law is still striffly en-
fore
. forced to prevent- the exportation of grain. The.
c...time, is punished with death. There is riow at
.ntwerp, a young man detained on such a charge ;.
21. e is. a Traveller fer a very respeetable Spanish
house in London ; he is not in custody, but was
ob/iged to find security that he would not leave
Antwerp till the business is settled.
. ,_
" I
,left Antwerp on the 28th f / • '1 h
or t us p ace,. 31
*lay of Methfitt, where we dined off ' two. courses,
'with a pint of Bourdeaux wine', fox two shillings
sterling. The-
villages in Flanders are., not' to be
equalled in the known world for their extent,,.larege
houses, &e. &C.; • they are more like towns than
lages
, dud thzse you meet wfili-every half league.
.;Excellent roads you have all the way from Antwerp
to BrusSels. The entrance
,to this City is most
beautiful, Brussels has very visibly decreased in
I)opnlation, and 'declined in. splendour, &c. since
the French are here. • - , .
" In the Palace here, formerly the residence of
tIIS Viceroy,
.there'is an Ecole Gentrale, established
I.°.r yonths from-twelve years of age and upwards,
°,l-Any .iVation, Friend.i Orf(ees.. They. are taught
here natural, history (by They,
RoNsiN) ; dead
1 , -
linguageti, matnematics (by .Prof. GLIESBRECI/T,
I!,ll.‘ttnitlent German. Professor) ;* chemistry; physic;
1,, Eminent
geography, general- grammar,. belles lei:.
tr
' • fel' - -
es, and dra,ving, &c.. There are nine -pro _ pi, beinnging to .the,lnStitute, who art- paid. by
i4= French Governmerit at , the.rate-of 1501. mi..:
Ik'llg per annum. each ; they also divide: among them
tit. w 1 .is, paid' 15y,. the students, which is 21
d'.4l'cl- Per annum about 255. sterling). each stn.
iie'Th--what an easy and trifling expence for a clas.
t,Q al educatiOn ! There are at. ;present about -2co
tkl dents here. the rnimbers.,are not Limited., An ,

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the le tomes ate public, and are held by fatation each
day, except on mathematics and dead languages,
which are every day. .
" To this incomparable establishment is added, in
the same building, a very extensive Library of about
80,000 volurbes, suited for the purpose. There is
also a French edition of Ovid.with.plates (which. are
like the figures on the India porcelainej, printed
at BrugeS in the year 1580 ; also an edition _of
Cicero's Discourses, printed at Venice, A. D.
1470; and the first book printed in Brussels, in
the. year 1476, called Speculum Cogscientia• : the
Library is free for every body to read in from nine
in the morning till three : these are the most re-
markable books in the Library. There; is also a
Cabinet for natural :history and mathematical in-
struments.

" In the same building there
.are also the paint_
ings to be-seen, • amounting to about 7000. All-the
best of REUBEN 3 and other eminent Artists are re-
movea to Paris, but there are still a great many in
private houses, which may beseen at any time. In
the public exhibition of piffures there are still three
very capital by REU B ENS, viz. " The Distribution
of Bread"—" The TriUmph of Religion"—and
" The Fifth Order of the Church."

‘‘ There is a very good theatre here : the prices
of admission to the first boxes zs. 6d. sterling; zd
boxes, is. 9d. and to the pit 14. d. There is no ,gal.
lery. There is also a very elegant house kept up
by subscription, called the Maisog du Ball. There
is also a very good Library, and all the French,
Getman and Dutch Newspapers to be had there :
no strangers are admitted, unless introduced by a
subscriber.

66 The Ex.-Direaor BARRAS resides here, and
occupieS a very elegant house in the park ;• he sees
no company, and, lives very retired, except
.going
to the-theatre every evening.
" Nothing astonished -me Chore than, a visit I
made: to the ci-devant Convent of Le Giand Besi-
;rage, which is a very extensive building; here
about 3000 ci-devant Nuns reside, who maintain
themselves by making of lace. Poor +creatures
they work very hard to gain a livelihood=it is
truly a distressing scene, as most of them are of a
good family, but whose- friends hai-e- become the
viftims of the Revolution."

Mrs. B!LLINGTON sings tonight at Covent-
Garden in consequence of an agrcetneta that she
should appear twice at that Theatre in a new part
befote she performed it at Drury-Lane.
MUNDEIT,It is said, has been the ohje6l of much
Green Room wit since he came to life again so un-
expededly. A6tors are a set of wags, and some
of them are suspetted of having spread the report-as
a koax to use fashi4nahle slng. It must how..
ever bC owned,- that at all times no Performer at the
Theatre would be so likely, as MuNDEN to serve it
at a dead lift.

It is not to be wondered at that Mr. CDMiIiER.
LAND should draw upon his head the ridicule of
fiippagt jarobitts-:—lt is the boast of that Gentle.
man's Muse that she is moral—it is the consolation
of his mind that it is actuated by a higher senti.
meat, .

The cireurnstance of HA'rriN's being eleCted Ho-
norary Meinber of the National Institute .of France
in preference to Mr. SIiSRIDAIV, brings tO our
mind a passage irr DitYDEN's celebrated Ode on. St.
Cecilia's Day, with the alteration of one word to
render it appropriate—

4, Thus JP7t was crown'd,
." But Music won the cause !"

14EtcHER: and GAMBLE; the Bruisers, have been
exhibiting their skill in the Pugilistic Art, at Bath
and. Bristol, but we believe without much.success.
This ciicumstonce, if true, is honourable' to the
taste and feeling,s of . the , Inhabitants. of those
Cities.

In the late storms a boat's crew of thirteen Irish_
men were wrecked on the coast of Scotland, but all
of ahem got safe to shore: 'This good fortuncTlid not,-
however, prevent much wailing and lamentation,
for each being Ole to count only. Pz.vele com-.
panions, they set up an Irish howl for the loss of
the thirteenth, whom they had not sagacity enough
to discover.

Mr. PULTENEY; afterwards known' by Me title
of Lord BATH, lay a long time most dangerously
ill of a violent pleuretic fever, at the first Lord
Cf/E•TWY.ND'S; at ingestone, This illness cast him
750 guineas, in Physicians; and his cure was effeft-
ed at last by some small beer, rir. HOPE, Dr.
SW IIsISON, and other Physicians; •from Staffind,
Litchfield, and Derby, were called in, and had
about aso guineas. Dr. FRIEND went down post
from, London with Mrs. PULTENEY, and • received
300 guineas. Dr. BkoxtioLm went from Oxford,
and had loci -gtiineas, When these Physicians,
who were his particular friends, arrived, they
thought the case desperate; and gave him entirely
over,. They said every thing had been done which
could be' done. They -prescribed some few me-
dicines, hut without the least effea. He was yet
alive, 'and was heard to mutter in a low tone—
" Small Beet, Small Beir."--They said, " Give
him small beer, or any thing." Accordingly a
large silver cup was brought. They ordered an
orange to be squeezed in it: he drank the whole at
one draught, He called for another; which was giVen
him, and he fell into a sound sleep and strong per_ spiration, for near z+ hours. From that time. he
recovered very fast, and very scion the Faculty
took their leave, saying; that he had no need of any
thing but an horse for his Do6or, and an . .4ss for
his 'Apothecary. It occasioned great joy round the
country for his recovery, as he wabjat than time in
he height of his popularity. •• .. • .
. In the Turkish ,Printing Establishment it Coro
-stantinople, which has existed for two years under
the favour of the Sultan SEL IM, a Didionary is now
printing of the Turkish, Greek, Latin, French,
and Persian tanguagesy in three volumes folios and
ninety sheets are . already printed. lu .Constanti-
,nople there are • besides. two Greek Printing-Of, •
Aces, .upder . the .inspedion of •the Patriarch NEoa.
PHYTtiS, . but in these, only Church Books re-
printed,